Vocab 2

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Across
  1. 5. social reform effort, primarily in the U.S. and UK, aimed at curbing or prohibiting the consumption of alcohol
  2. 7. a historic town pivotal to American history as the site of John Brown’s 1859 abolitionist raid, which catalyzed the Civil War
  3. 9. a league or alliance, especially of confederate states
  4. 15. a roughly 2,000-mile, heavily used overland emigration route in U.S. history
  5. 16. a 1861 Union strategy proposed by General-in-Chief Winfield Scott to win the Civil War by strangling the Confederacy
  6. 19. the action or process of reconstructing or being reconstructed
  7. 22. a legal right that protects against unlawful imprisonment, demanding that a person being held must be brought before a judge to determine if their detention is legal
  8. 24. laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of Black voters
  9. 26. the principle granting local governments the authority to manage their own affairs
  10. 27. the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants
  11. 28. American nurse, teacher, and humanitarian who founded the American Red Cross
  12. 29. a rebellion by Texian (Anglo-American) and Tejano (Hispanic Texan) settlers against the centralist government of Mexico
  13. 30. charge (the holder of a public office) with misconduct
Down
  1. 1. American belief that the United States was divinely ordained to expand its dominion, democracy, and capitalism across the entire North American continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific
  2. 2. an American religious leader who founded the Latter Day Saint movement
  3. 3. occurring or existing before a particular war, especially the American Civil War
  4. 4. a derogatory nickname for white Southerners who supported the Republican Party during the Reconstruction era
  5. 6. the 16th U.S. President (1861–1865), leading the nation through the Civil War and ending slavery
  6. 8. the act of officially ending or stopping something
  7. 10. an American Republican politician, minister, and educator who made history as the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress
  8. 11. an enslaved African American man who sued for his freedom
  9. 12. pioneering 19th-century American social reformer, author, and teacher who revolutionized care for the mentally ill
  10. 13. (of a tenant farmer) cultivate (farmland) giving a part of each crop as rent
  11. 14. a vocal faction of Northern Democrats (Peace Democrats) during the American Civil War (1861–1865) who strongly opposed the war
  12. 17. the bloodiest single-day engagement in American history, with over 22,000 casualties
  13. 18. a radical American abolitionist who believed in armed insurrection to overthrow the institution of slavery
  14. 20. the formal, often unilateral, withdrawal of a state, region, or group from a larger political entity to become independent or join another entity
  15. 21. Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is an American white supremacist hate group, established in 1865
  16. 23. an American educator, Whig politician, and abolitionist known as the "Father of the Common School" for spearheading the 19th-century public education reform movement
  17. 25. append or add as an extra or subordinate part, especially to a document