American History Vocab - Unit 2

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Across
  1. 2. famous trade route connecting Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
  2. 6. First major women's rights convention in 1848. Demands right to vote.
  3. 9. reformer who worked to improve conditions for the mentally ill and prisoners.
  4. 10. route taken by Mormons fleeing religious persecution to settle in Utah.
  5. 13. plan by Andrew Johnson that was lenient toward the South and did not offer much protection for freed slaves.
  6. 15. Escaped slave who became a famous writer, speaking against slavery abolitionists).
  7. 19. term describing the time period before the Civil War (mostly referring to the South).
  8. 21. Laws passed in the South immediately after the Civil War to restrict the freedom of African Americans and keep them as cheap labor.
  9. 24. Small strip of land in Arizona and New Mexico bought from Mexico to build a railroad.
  10. 25. famous nurse during the Civil War who later founded the American Red Cross.
  11. 26. Idea that a territory could effectively ban slavery by simply refusing to pass laws that supported it. (Stephen Douglas).
  12. 27. popular belief in the 1800s that a woman’s place was in the home, taking care of the house and children.
  13. 29. The Union strategy to win the Civil War by "squeezing" the South: blocking their ports and taking control of the Mississippi River.
  14. 30. first battle between two "ironclad" (metal-covered) ships, changing naval warfare forever.
Down
  1. 1. first major battle of the Civil War; a victory for the South (Confederacy) proved the war would be long.
  2. 3. Violent slave rebellion in Virginia. Led to stricter slave laws.
  3. 4. farming system where freed slaves worked on a white owner's land in exchange for a "share" of the crops.
  4. 5. set of laws to ease tension: California became a free state, but the North had to enforce the strict Fugitive Slave Act.
  5. 7. Radical white abolitionist who believed in using violence to end slavery. Famous for Harpers Ferry.
  6. 8. former slave who became a powerful speaker for abolition and women's rights ("Ain't I a Woman?").
  7. 11. Garrison, radical white abolitionist who published the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator.
  8. 12. Law required citizens in free states to help catch and return escaped slaves to their owners.
  9. 14. Belief native born Americans are superior to immigrants.
  10. 16. Democrats who opposed the Civil War and wanted immediate peace with the South.
  11. 17. Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War, often to make money or gain political power.
  12. 18. A secret hate group formed by white Southerners to terrorize African Americans and stop them from voting.
  13. 20. A reformer known as the “Father of Public Education” who fought for fee schools.
  14. 22. War between US and Mexico. The US won and gained huge amounts of land. (California, Nevada, Utah).
  15. 23. the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War. Gave Lincoln political strength to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
  16. 28. negative term for a white Southerner who supported the Republican party and Reconstruction after the Civil War.