HN US History Units 4-6 Crossword
Across
- 1. Agricultural system where former slaves rented land and paid with crops
- 3. Site of the first shots of the Civil War
- 5. Act that introduced popular sovereignty to new territories
- 10. Loyalty to one's own region or section of the country
- 13. Convention in 1848 that launched the women's rights movement
- 16. Part of the Compromise of 1850 that angered abolitionists
- 17. Laws passed in the South to restrict the freedom of African Americans
- 18. Proclamation freeing slaves in Confederate-held territory
- 21. Union siege that gained control of the Mississippi River
- 22. William Tecumseh ______, Union general famous for his "March to the Sea"
- 23. Slave states that remained in the Union
- 25. Era characterized by increased participation of the common man in politics
- 27. 1820 agreement balancing free and slave states
- 29. Crisis of 1832 over states' rights to void federal laws
- 30. Law passed in 1830 leading to the forced displacement of Native Americans
- 31. Union strategy to blockade and divide the Confederacy
Down
- 2. New political party formed in 1854, largely anti-slavery
- 4. Union general who ultimately led the army to victory
- 6. Laws passed to combat the Ku Klux Klan
- 7. Amendment granting citizenship and equal protection
- 8. Congressional group pushing for harsh Reconstruction
- 9. Pivotal battle in Pennsylvania, major Union victory
- 11. Period after the Civil War for rebuilding the South
- 12. Land gained after the Mexican-American War
- 14. Escaped slave who became a prominent abolitionist orator
- 15. Supreme Court decision denying citizenship to African Americans
- 19. Belief in America's divinely ordained right to expand westward
- 20. Site of John Brown's unsuccessful raid to incite a slave rebellion
- 24. Violent conflicts over slavery in a new territory
- 26. Amendment granting voting rights regardless of race
- 28. First major land battle, also known as Manassas