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  1. 3. year the US colonies declared independence
  2. 4. formal word for the right to vote
  3. 7. Constitutional goal from the Preamble the United States is always striving to make real for all
  4. 10. West Coast site of immigration station in the 19th-20th century
  5. 11. first ten amendments to the Constitution
  6. 12. amendment that protects freedom of speech, press, religion, peaceful protest...
  7. 15. Supreme Court case that established unjust idea of separate but equal, overturned in 20th century
  8. 17. branch of the government that makes laws
  9. 18. 17th-18th century European era of ideas that the US framework of governing is based off of
  10. 19. idea that the US should stretch from coast to coast, resulting in increased mistreatment of Indigenous peoples
Down
  1. 1. formerly Mexican citizens who found themselves now living in America after the Mexican-American War, source of incredible local knowledge
  2. 2. formerly enslaved abolitionist, orator and publisher of "The North Star"
  3. 5. branch of the government that interprets laws
  4. 6. used skills as investigative journalist to chronicle lynchings in the post Reconstruction Era South
  5. 8. East Coast site of immigration station in the 19th-20th century
  6. 9. Supreme Court case that established judicial review
  7. 13. year that women constitutionally got the right to vote
  8. 14. era after the Civil War when the US tried to reunite and work towards more rights for African American people
  9. 16. Supreme Court case that guaranteed right to marry interracially