APUSH Period 5 Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 3. Tenth President. Served April 4, 1841 to 1845. A Virginian Whig, he was the first vice president to ascend to the presidency upon the death of the incumbent
  2. 7. A Tennessee Whig nominated by the Constitutional Union Party in 1860. He had a storied career in both house of Congress, including a short stint as Speaker of the House. His argument that the Constitution protected slavery won him the electoral votes of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. After the Civil War broke out, he supported the Confederacy.
  3. 10. A conflict between the United States and Mexico. It took place from April 1846 to February 1848. Following the 1845 American annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered a wayward province whose independence was a legal fiction created under duress, war broke out between the two nations.
  4. 12. U.S. senator from Massachusetts (1827–1841, 1845–1850) and Secretary of State under Harrison and Tyler (1841–1843) and Fillmore (1850–1852).
  5. 13. A special envoy sent by President Polk to to inform the Mexican government of U.S. desires to draw the Texas border at the Rio Grande, rather than the Nueces River farther south, and to purchase California.
  6. 15. An act of obstructionism that prevents the normal workings of the legislature. An elected official while continue talking rather than allow debate on a bill to be closed, thus preventing a vote from taking place. In the U.S. Senate, it was never used until 18 37.
  7. 18. Sixteenth President. Served 1861 to his assassination on April 15, 1865. A former Whig who had opposed the Mexican-American War, he joined the newly formed Republican Party. His 1860 election triggered the secession of several states, and he deftly led the Union through the ensuing Civil War.
  8. 19. A term for thousands of former slaves who uprooted their families and moved toward Kansas between 1878 and 1880. These migrants called themselves this, because they believed that their promised land lay somewhere in the West.
  9. 21. Seventeenth President. Served 1865–1869. One of only two presidents to be impeached; like Bill Clinton, he was not convicted. Took office after Lincoln’s assassination. A Democrat who had run with the Republican Lincoln, he was disliked by Congress, especially for his mild terms for Reconstruction and disinterest in protecting newly freed slaves; this all led to Radical Republicans passing the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 and the Fourteenth Amendment.
  10. 22. A Confederate general who worked under Lee. Until his death in 1863, he was involved in every major battle in the eastern theater of the war. He is considered an able officer by military historians.
  11. 24. Secretary of State (1862–1868) under the Lincoln and Johnson administrations. A Radical Republican, he supported Congress over Johnson when it came to Reconstruction
  12. 25. Families traveled up to six months in caravans, covering only about 15 miles per day with good weather
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  1. 1. Eleventh President. Served 1845–1849. An heir of sorts to Andrew Jackson, he advocated for Manifest Destiny. His campaign slogan was “Fifty-four forty or fight!”
  2. 2. Fifteenth President. Serve 1857–1861. A Pennsylvania Democrat, he had a storied career as a U.S. senator and representative, a Secretary of State, and an ambassador to both Russia and Britain.
  3. 4. A political movement that sought to return control of the former Confederacy to white Southerners. Their policy sought to purge the South of the influence of Republicans, carpetbaggers, and newly emancipated slaves.
  4. 5. Northern Democrats who demanded a peace settlement with the Confederacy. The term was initially a pejorative coined by Republicans, who likened the anti-war Democrats to the venomous copperhead snake, but was adopted by Democrats as a symbol of Liberty (owing to the Liberty Head large cent copper coins in circulation at the time).
  5. 6. The sole President of the Confederate States. Served February 22, 1862 to May 10, 1865. He was a Democrat from Mississippi. A veteran of the Mexican-American War, he had served in the House (1845–1856) and Senate (1847–1851, 1857–1861), as well as Secretary of War (1853–1857) under Franklin Pierce.
  6. 8. A period (1865–1877) of rebuilding and reforming the South following the Civil War. It is considered a failure, as African Americans were left destitute and disenfranchised for another century
  7. 9. A pejorative term for the stereotype of the Northerner who packed all of his worldly possessions in a suitcase made from carpet, with the aim of moving to the South during Reconstruction to make a fortune.
  8. 11. Advocates for ending slavery
  9. 14. Nickname for an influx of immigrants to California in 1849 seeking riches in the gold rush. A number of immigrants were Chinese.
  10. 16. these people would lease land and borrow supplies to till their plots, while giving a significant portion of their harvest to the landowner as payment for the loan. This exploitative system ensured that farmers were never able to harvest enough to pay the landlord and feed their families.
  11. 17. Vice President under James Buchanan, he was the Democratic party’s nominee for president in the 1860 election. He won the South and Maryland, but no Northern states. He supported the Confederacy, becoming a general in its army.
  12. 20. Coined by Southern Democrats, it was a derogatory term for Southern Republicans that meant they were pirates who sought to steal from state governments and line their own pockets
  13. 23. U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1851–1874). A Radical Republican abolitionist, he pushed for the protection of civil rights in Southern states. Famously caned on the floor of the Senate by Preston Brooks.