USH - Domain 2

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Across
  1. 3. Compromise A deal in Congress that kept the balance of free and slave states.
  2. 5. Purchase Land bought from France in 1803 that doubled the size of the U.S.
  3. 8. of 1850 Laws that tried to settle arguments over slavery in new states and territories.
  4. 9. Amendment Amendment giving African American men the right to vote.
  5. 12. Destiny The belief that the U.S. should expand across the North American continent.
  6. 13. Adams The second President who was a Federalist and faced challenges with France.
  7. 14. Crow Laws Laws in the South that kept African Americans segregated after Reconstruction.
  8. 15. Jefferson Third President who made the Louisiana Purchase and wrote the Declaration of Independence
  9. 19. Act A law that let people in these territories decide on slavery themselves, leading to violence.
  10. 20. A system where freed slaves worked land owned by others and gave part of the crops as payment.
Down
  1. 1. The period after the Civil War when the South was rebuilt and formerly enslaved people gained rights.
  2. 2. Lincoln President during the Civil War who issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
  3. 4. Proclamation Lincoln’s order that freed slaves in the Confederate states.
  4. 6. Bureau Government agency that helped formerly enslaved people with food, education, and jobs.
  5. 7. Washington The first President of the United States and leader of the Revolutionary War army.
  6. 9. Amendment Amendment that abolished slavery in the United States.
  7. 10. Revolution A period when machines and factories changed how people worked and lived.
  8. 11. Monroe Fifth President remembered for the Monroe Doctrine, warning Europe not to interfere in the Americas.
  9. 14. Madison Fourth President known as the “Father of the Constitution” and led the U.S. during the War of 1812.
  10. 16. Doctrine A policy warning European nations not to colonize or interfere in the Americas.
  11. 17. of 1812 A war between the U.S. and Britain that showed the U.S. could defend itself.
  12. 18. Amendment Amendment giving citizenship and equal protection under the law to everyone born in the U.S.
  13. 21. War The war between the North (Union) and South (Confederacy) over slavery and states’ rights.