1.8-1.10 vocab
Across
- 2. is a machine that is used to pull cotton fibers from the cotton seed.
- 3. the withdrawal of 11 slave states (states in which slaveholding was legal) from the Union during 1860–61 following the election of Abraham Lincoln as president
- 4. was a widely held cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America.
- 9. refers to the Supreme Court of the United States from 1801 to 1835
- 11. that all territories were opened up to slavery once again
- 12. practice in which the political party winning an election rewards its campaign workers and other active supporters by appointment to government posts
- 13. system of manufacturing that began in the 18th century and is based on the concentration of industry into specialized
- 14. an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe
- 15. attempt to start an armed revolt of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery
- 16. was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
- 19. American Civil War campaign that concluded Union operations in the Confederate state of Georgia
- 21. plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral
- 22. a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg
- 23. was a Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States
- 25. an island fortification located in Charleston Harbor
- 26. that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states
- 27. consists of five laws passed in September of 1850
- 28. authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders
Down
- 1. a volunteer Union regiment organized in the American Civil War
- 5. was the first women's rights convention in the United States
- 6. An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas
- 7. is one of the two major political parties in the United States
- 8. a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway enslaved people within the territory of the United States
- 10. violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan
- 17. riot in Richmond, Virginia, on April 2, 1863
- 18. an exaggerated devotion to the interests of a region over those of a country as a whole.
- 20. during the American Civil War, pejoratively, any citizen in the North who opposed the war policy and advocated restoration of the Union through a negotiated settlement with the South
- 24. an organized effort to end the practice of slavery in the United States