Unit 4 Crossword Review

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Across
  1. 2. 7th president of the United States and war hero from the War of 1812
  2. 5. Both Jackson and Adams were part of this political party
  3. 9. the forced relocation and removal of 60,000 Native Americans
  4. 10. to withdraw formally from an alliance; to leave the United States
  5. 11. This state entered the Union as a free state under the Compromise of 1850
  6. 13. The Mexican-American War was about the annexation of this US state
  7. 14. Lincoln became a household name after debating Stephen ________ for the senate seat of Illinois
  8. 17. Abolitionist John Brown incited a slave revolt at this location
  9. 26. a 19th-century political philosophy in the United States that expanded suffrage to most white men
  10. 29. a nativist political movement in the United States in the 1850s
  11. 30. set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; to free from slavery
  12. 31. Washington, D.C. was home to the largest ________ ________ in North America at the time
  13. 33. Speaker of the House of Representatives who supported John Q Adams for president in the special election of 1824
  14. 34. an enslaved Black carpenter who led a four-day rebellion
  15. 36. This law allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves to the South
  16. 37. a law that allowed President Jackson to relocate Native American tribes
  17. 39. an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe
  18. 43. a legal theory that the states in the US have a right to declare a federal law invalid
  19. 45. a political party formed in 1834 by opponents of President Andrew Jackson
  20. 46. a practice in which a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its supporters, friends, and relatives as a reward
  21. 47. South Carolina seceded from the Union _______ ______ after the election of Lincoln
  22. 48. a network of secret routes and safe houses that helped enslaved African Americans escape
  23. 49. political opponent of Andrew Jackson
Down
  1. 1. The convention for women's rights was held at this location in 1848
  2. 3. the right to vote
  3. 4. This "party" got stranded in the Sierra Nevada on their journey west and was forced to resort to cannabalism
  4. 6. Andrew Jackson killed two bills supporting a national bank through his ______ powers
  5. 7. The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to what historians call "____________ _________" - it was the most significant event leading up to the Civil War
  6. 8. This enslaved person was at the center of a major supreme court case that ruled African Americans are not citizens
  7. 12. Southern states who seceded from the Union created the _______________ States of America
  8. 15. 1 in 20 Americans moved west on this route
  9. 16. a type of cloth or woven fabric
  10. 18. This principle was used in territorial disputes over slavery, allowing the people living in each state to decide if they wanted slavery or not
  11. 19. Elizabeth Cady _________ and Susan B Anthony were the leading suffragettes during the 19th century
  12. 20. Harriet Tubman earned this nickname through helping enslaved people escape the South
  13. 21. state where Andrew Jackson is from
  14. 22. an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known for his widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberato
  15. 23. a selection of electors from each state who vote for president
  16. 24. Lincoln was from this rural state
  17. 25. The newly founded Republican party nominated this man to run for president in 1860
  18. 27. The Whig party will split over the issue of __________ in 1854
  19. 28. Andrew Jackson supported strengthening this branch of government
  20. 32. the state of the US involved in the nullification crisis against the federal government
  21. 35. the idea that the region of a country has unique values and characteristics
  22. 38. the period of American history before the Civil War (1812-1861)
  23. 40. the political and social reform movement to end slavery
  24. 41. Name for the inauguration of Jackson in 1828 where his supporters trashed the White House lawn and DC
  25. 42. This compromise in 1820 temporarily settled the issue of slavery in new states
  26. 44. a blacksmith in Richmond, Virginia who planned a slave rebellion in the summer of 1800