US History Mid Term Terms and Names to Know Crossword
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
 
 
Down: 1) Notion that America was destined by God to stretch from Atlantic to Pacific. Drew upon Thomas Jefferson's vision of an expansive "empire of liberty". Used as a rationale for expansionist foreign policy3) Believed in a weak central government, state and individual rights, and strict interpretation of the Constitution. 4) Act that passed taxes on certain imports that had not been taxed before6) He was an American great thinker who embraced the ideas of the Enlightenment7) Established by the Pilgrims and function under the Mayflower compact.8) Started the Supreme Court. Appointed John Jay as first Chief Justice9) Established the first colonies in the New World by having people give money to finance trips in the hopes to make profit from trade10) Freed all enslaved people in the loyal border states.13) Religious movement in America attempting to restore the Puritan Church and increased church attendance14) Ex-Slave orator for abolition United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)15) Passed in 1820, allowed two states to enter the US and drew a LINE at 36'30" that banned slavery north of it18) Officially known as the act of trade, restricted colonial trade to be only with England 20) Primarily wrote the Declaration of Independence, Democratic- Republican, 3rd president of the United States21) -Leader of the continental army in American revolution -1st to become U.S President 22) Organization of workers formed to protect their interests, usually by negotiating to resolve issues such as wages and working conditions.24) The first ten amendments to the Constitution, which guarantee basic individual rights.25) Officially ended Mexican-American War. U.S. annexed California, Arizona, New Mexico, other areas in Southwest. Mexico lost 55% of its territory26) Fourth President of the United States27) Name given to the ocean travel between Africa and North America in the slave trade. Many Africans died during this trip29) First secretary of treasury that believed in loose interpretation of the government He made a plan that proposed that the US should pay off war debts, raise gov. revenues with tariffs, and create a national 30) Gave the right to vote to all citizens regardless of race and gender33) Believed in a strong central government, a strong army, industry, and loose interpretation of the Constitution35) Work stoppage to refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet certain demands36) Colonist who fought for independence40) Turned Jamestown settlement into a successful colony and made a treaty with the Natives Across: 2) The 800 mile walks west. Caused by the Indian Removal Act5) 1st Republican President 1861-1865, led the nation during the Civil War; assassinated beginning of second term11) Refers to the interaction between the old world (Europe) and new world (America) movement of plants, animals, peoples, and diseases between the Eastern and Western hemispheres. this movement of living things between hemispheres 12) Movement that valued reason and scientific thinking16) Signed in 1783 officially ended the American Revolution and established the United States as an independent nation17) The period of time during which the United States began to rebuild after the Civil War where the federal government readmits the Confederate states back into the Union19) Abe Lincolns famous speech a famous speech delivered Nov. 1863 at the dedication of a national cemetery, site of the Battle of Gettysburg, captured the spirit of liberty and morality ideals held by citizens of a democracy; the ideals were threatened by the Civil War, equated the war to a "birth of a new freedom"23) imposed a tax on documents and printed items such as wills, newspapers, and cards28) Network of northern (not all abolitionists) that help escaped slaves reach freedom in the North or in Canada31) Declared America's independence from Great Britain. Formal document, passed formally on July 4, 1776 that absolved all allegiance from the British Crown. The document consists of 4 parts and was in actuality a declaration of war. 32) Economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods; investments that are determined by private decision rather than by state control; and determined in a free market34) The movement to end slavery37) one of the first conquistadors. he landed on Central America coast with 508 men in 1519.38) An Italian navigator who represented the Spanish people to find Western trade route to Asia, but ended up finding the Americas39) Union fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. The South fired the first shot here and it started the war (S. Carolina) 41) Established the first colonies in the New World by having people give money to finance trips in the hopes to make profit from trade42) Greatest accomplishment. Doubled the size of the U.S. at the time. Bought for 15 million in 1803 from Napoleon (France)43) (1773) Another protest on tax, dumped 18,000 pounds of tea by colonists into Boston Harbor44) was the most famous general of the Civil War. When his home state of VA seceded, who forbade the states to deny any person the vote on grounds of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was submitted in 1869 and ratified in 187045) Aztec Emperor, feared that Cortes had been sent by an Aztec god to rule Mexico46) Name given to trade routes between the colonies, England, and Africa47) The first successful British colony in the New World
 

 

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