Across
- 2. France sold Louisiana to the US in exchange for fifteen million dollars
- 7. unpaid laborers forced to sign a contract to work for free
- 10. breakaway state that fought against the US in the Civil War
- 12. formally withdrawing from a membership of a federation or body especially a political state
- 13. enforced racial segregation in the south
- 14. hate group in the south that aimed to surpress new rights of African Americans and oppose carpetbaggers
- 15. conflicted imperial war between Great Britain and France
- 18. colonists who rejected British rule
- 19. widespread transfer of plants, slaves, ideas, culture, animals, and diseases between the Americas, Africa, and the Old World
- 22. an estate where crops are grown and cultivated by resident labor
- 24. first permanent english settlement
- 26. act to break up tribal lands and the Native Americans who accepted individual allowments were granted citizenship
- 29. conflict fought between US, the allies, and Great Britain and Ireland over restrictions on trade and US expansion
- 34. led a small raid against the federal armory in Harpers Ferry, VA, and attempted to start an armed slave revolt to destroy the institution of slavery
- 35. abolished slavery
- 37. belief of the benefits in profitable trading
- 40. forbidden settlement west of Appalachian Mountains
- 41. a flaw that drives a person away from a certain place
- 44. chartered government for Northwest territories and provided new states to union from territory
- 45. original constitution ratified in eighteen seventy-one
- 46. allowed the creation of land-grant colleges and universities in the US
- 47. an armed uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to debt crisis between citizens and state government’s efforts to collect taxes
- 48. a person who favors abolition of institution, especially capital punishment or slavery
- 49. all slaves were declared free
- 50. Abraham Lincoln was elected as president of the US
Down
- 1. African Americans were given the right to vote
- 3. biased information used to publicize a political point of view
- 4. an abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became a national leader
- 5. a period of conflict during which each side seeks to wear out the other by a series of small scale actions
- 6. flagship Indian boarding school (1879-1918)
- 8. citizens who never went against the US in the Civil War could claim 160 acres of land
- 9. belief that expansion of US were justified and inevitable
- 11. authority if a state and its government are created and sustained by consent of the people
- 16. founding father that played a key role in defending and ratifying the constitution
- 17. French military officer that helped the colonists against the British in the American Revolution
- 20. armed conflict between the US and MX
- 21. laws made to limit the power of freedmen
- 23. conduct or speech that makes people want to rebel against authority of a state or monarch
- 25. a series of laws passed by British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade
- 27. undue concern with local interests and petty distinctions at the expense of general well being
- 28. something concerning a country that causes one to migrate
- 30. a minority group or culture comes to resemble a dominant group or assume the values, behaviors, or beliefs of another group
- 31. first president of the US and led patriots to victory in the American Revolution
- 32. citizenship was automatically given to those born in the US
- 33. law that authorized the president to negotiate with Native American tribes for their removal in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands
- 36. faction of republican party during the Civil War that had a fierce advocacy for abolition of slavery
- 38. colonist loyal to the British government
- 39. US warns European nations that further colonization and puppet monarchs are going to be intolerable
- 42. a crop produced for its dollar value
- 43. legal designation for an area of land that is managed by Indian tribes under the US Bureau of Indian Affairs