Unit 2 Vocab Reconstruction

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  1. 4. an American religious leader and politician. He was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  2. 5. 1,300-mile long route from Illinois to Utah on which Mormon pioneers traveled from 1846–47
  3. 8. an unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War
  4. 9. append or add as an extra or subordinate part, especially to a document.
  5. 11. an American politician who served as the first and only president of the C rate States of America from 1861 to 1865. He represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party before the American Civil War.
  6. 17. (extemist organization) oldest and most infamous of American hate group
  7. 19. a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos against the centralist government of Mexico
  8. 22. the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War.
  9. 23. of Domesticity used by historians to describe what they consider to have been a prevailing value system among the upper and middle classes during the 19th century in the United States.
  10. 24. the action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.
  11. 26. Trail 19th-century route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri, with Santa Fe, New Mexico.
  12. 27. a fundamental right in the Constitution that protects against unlawful and indefinite imprisonment.
  13. 28. an escaped enslaved woman who became a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, leading enslaved people to freedom before the Civil War
  14. 29. American religious leader and the founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. Publishing the Book of Mormon at the age of 24
  15. 30. tested the limits of Naval warfare with the Federal Blockade at risk at the Battle of Hampton Roads.
Down
  1. 1. declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
  2. 2. a derogatory term for an individual from the North who relocated to the South during the Reconstruction period (1865–77), following the American Civil War.
  3. 3. 16th President ofJefferson Davisates; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves
  4. 6. gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South.
  5. 7. occurring or existing before a particular war, especially the American Civil War.
  6. 10. Hiram Rhodes Revels was an American Republican politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church
  7. 12. provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
  8. 13. advocate on behalf of the indigent mentally ill who, through a vigorous and sustained program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress
  9. 14. American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known for his widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator
  10. 15. militant American abolitionist and veteran of Bleeding Kansas whose raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
  11. 16. Revolution transformed American society in the 19th century. It introduced factory labor, shifted the economy from barter to wages, and connected the U.S. to global markets.
  12. 18. a 2,170-mile east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon Territory.
  13. 20. minor political party in the pre-Civil War period of American history that opposed the extension of slavery
  14. 21. granted African American men the right to vote.
  15. 25. Movement a social movement promoting temperance or complete abstinence from consumption of alcoholic beverages.