APUSH Unit 5

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Across
  1. 3. Amendment that granted African Americans citizenship and equal protection under the laws (1868)
  2. 4. Territory gained from the Mexican-American War that sparked heated debates over whether to allow slavery in new lands (1848)
  3. 6. Southern white Democrats who took back power over state governments in the South and restored white supremacy, contributing to the end of Reconstruction (1870s)
  4. 8. Political deal that ended Reconstruction by withdrawing federal troops from the South in exchange for Republican Rutherford Hayes winning the presidency
  5. 9. Union military strategy to blockade Southern ports and control the Mississippi River in order to strangle the Confederacy economically
  6. 11. Lincoln's speech that portrayed the struggle against slavery as the fulfillment of America's founding democratic ideals (1863)
  7. 18. Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel that dramatized the brutal realities of slavery and strengthened the abolitionist movement in the North (1852)
  8. 20. Post Civil War era in which radical and moderate Republicans sought to reorder race relations and rebuild the South
  9. 21. Argument used by defenders of slavery alongside racial doctrines and the claim that slavery was a positive social good
  10. 22. Sectional political party that emerged in the North on a free soil platform and won the presidency in 1860
  11. 26. Laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War to restrict the freedom and rights of formerly enslaved persons and maintain white supremacy
  12. 27. Congressional effort led by Radical Republicans to remove the president for violating the Tenure of Office Act, reflecting broader struggle over control of Reconstruction (1868)
  13. 28. Process by which slave states voted to leave the Union after Lincoln's election precipitating the Civil War (1860)
  14. 29. Amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States (1865)
  15. 30. Movement that portrayed the expansion of slavery as incompatible with free labor and opposed slavery's spread into new territories
  16. 31. Federal agency established to assist formerly enslaved persons with food shelter education and employment during Reconstruction (1865)
  17. 32. Republican political organization that mobilized African American voters in the South during Reconstruction
  18. 33. Amendment that granted African American men the right to vote (1870)
Down
  1. 1. Belief that the U.S. had a god-given right and duty to expand its borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
  2. 2. Breakaway government of southern slave states that showed early military initiative but was ultimately defeated by Union forces
  3. 5. African American and white activists who mounted a campaign against slavery using moral arguments and sometimes violence
  4. 7. Reconstruction-era congressional faction that pushed for harsh terms on the South
  5. 10. Supreme Court decision that denied citizenship to African Americans and ruled Congress could not prohibit slavery in territories (1857)
  6. 12. Exploitative agricultural system that emerged after the Civil War limiting formerly enslaved persons and poor whites' access to land ownership
  7. 13. Northern whites who moved to the South after the Civil War to participate in Reconstruction governments, depicted by opponents as opportunistic outsiders
  8. 14. Congressional attempt to resolve the issue of slavery in the territories that ultimately failed to reduce sectional conflict
  9. 15. The five zones the South was divided into under the Reconstruction Acts placing former Confederate states under Union Army control (1867)
  10. 16. Southern white Republicans who supported Reconstruction and were denounced by former Confederates as traitors
  11. 17. Lincoln's wartime declaration that reframed the Civil War's purpose and helped prevent European powers from recognizing the Confederacy (1863)
  12. 19. Large group of immigrants who arrived in the 1840s and 1850s following economic hardship; often worked in factories
  13. 23. Act that reopened the debate over slavery in the territories by establishing popular sovereignty (1854)
  14. 24. Strongly anti Catholic movement that arose to limit new immigrants' political power and cultural influence in the 1840s and 1850s
  15. 25. Enduring achievement of Reconstruction, laying the foundation for historically Black colleges and universities