8th US History Problem Eras (Reform thru Reconstruction)

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Across
  1. 2. factories, textile mills, trade, immigrant labor
  2. 3. amendment that ended slavery in the United States
  3. 9. gave Union control of the Mississippi River
  4. 10. California joined as a free state and Fugitive Slave Act was passed
  5. 12. movement to end slavery
  6. 15. reason for South Carolina seceding
  7. 20. Missouri joins as a slave state and Maine joins as a free state
  8. 21. those who worked to end slavery
  9. 23. factors that for immigrants to leave their country and come to the United States
  10. 24. amendment that gave African Americans citizenship
  11. 26. written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, convinced Northerners to become abolitionists
  12. 27. encouraged people to be more religious
  13. 29. publisher of the Liberator
  14. 30. runaway slaves and free blacks were at risk of being captured by slave hunters
  15. 31. fighting broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups of people in Kansas territory
Down
  1. 1. plantation system, slave labor, cash crops
  2. 4. father of US education
  3. 5. great compromiser
  4. 6. publisher of the North Star
  5. 7. Union General
  6. 8. period of time after the Civil War, South was in financial ruin and divided into 5 military districts
  7. 11. worked to improve prison conditions and create facilities for the mentally ill
  8. 13. famous conductor of the Underground Railroad
  9. 14. led by women to decrease alcohol consumption
  10. 16. loyalty to ones region rather than the country
  11. 17. founded by Emerson and Thoreau, focused on ideal societies and individualism
  12. 18. led to slavery increasing in the United States
  13. 19. political party that wanted to end the spread of slavery
  14. 22. Confederate General
  15. 25. women's rights movement began here
  16. 28. amendment that gave African American males suffrage