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