Across
- 4. served the shortest time of any American President—only thirty-two days. He also was the first President from the Whig Party
- 6. the machine used to pull cotton fibers from the seed which was invented by Eli Whitney
- 8. a major political party in the United States between the late 1830s and the early 1850s, opposition to the Democratic party
- 10. an anti-immigrant policy focused on protecting domestic interests
- 11. a law passed to admit Missouri as a slave state and create a limit on slavery in the north
- 12. the 10th president of the US which earned the first VETO override in Congress
- 13. a period in the U.S. when transportation became cheaper and more efficient with the rapid development of railroads and canals
Down
- 1. a period in the 1820s-1830s in which the economy and society shifted from moral economies to a capitalist system
- 2. a nativist political movement whose members refused to answer questions about the association
- 3. granted control of Florida to the US and settled Spanish disputes
- 5. confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government over attempts to nullify and void the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832
- 7. the right to vote in political elections
- 9. a financial crisis in the United States that triggered a multi-year economic depression in the 1830s