Unit 2 Vocab Reconstruction
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- 4. an American religious leader and politician. He was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- 5. 1,300-mile long route from Illinois to Utah on which Mormon pioneers traveled from 1846–47
- 8. an unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War
- 9. append or add as an extra or subordinate part, especially to a document.
- 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.
- 17. (extemist organization) oldest and most infamous of American hate group
- 19. a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos against the centralist government of Mexico
- 22. the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War.
- 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.
- 24. the action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.
- 26. Trail 19th-century route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri, with Santa Fe, New Mexico.
- 27. a fundamental right in the Constitution that protects against unlawful and indefinite imprisonment.
- 28. an escaped enslaved woman who became a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, leading enslaved people to freedom before the Civil War
- 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
- 30. tested the limits of Naval warfare with the Federal Blockade at risk at the Battle of Hampton Roads.
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- 1. declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
- 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. 16th President ofJefferson Davisates; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves
- 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.
- 7. occurring or existing before a particular war, especially the American Civil War.
- 10. Hiram Rhodes Revels was an American Republican politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church
- 12. provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
- 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
- 14. American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known for his widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator
- 15. militant American abolitionist and veteran of Bleeding Kansas whose raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
- 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.
- 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.
- 20. minor political party in the pre-Civil War period of American history that opposed the extension of slavery
- 21. granted African American men the right to vote.
- 25. Movement a social movement promoting temperance or complete abstinence from consumption of alcoholic beverages.