American History Unit 2 Vocab

1. The fight for Texas independence from Mexico
4. Abolitionist and women’s rights activist
6. The group of Southern states that seceded from the Union
8. A political party that opposed immigrants and Catholics
11. A major Civil War battle that led to the Emancipation Proclamation
16. Favoring native-born Americans over immigrants
18. Abraham Lincoln 16th president who led the U.S. during the Civil War
19. To formally accuse a public official of wrongdoing
21. A racist secret group that opposed African American rights
22. Founder of the Mormon religion and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
23. To add territory to a country
25. The act of leaving or breaking away from a nation
27. Northern Democrats who opposed the Civil War
28. The period before the Civil War

2. A major route settlers used to travel west
3. The idea that settlers vote to decide if slavery is allowed in a territory
5. The period after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South
7. A period when people rushed to find gold, especially in California
9. Control of local government by local citizens
10. A Northerner who moved South during Reconstruction for political or economic gain
11. The movement to end slavery
12. A system where farmers rent land instead of owning it
13. A farming system where workers farm land in exchange for a share of crops
14. Laws in the South that limited the rights of freed African Americans
15. A proposal to ban slavery in territory gained from Mexico
17. A Southern white who supported Reconstruction after the Civil War
20. A legal principle protecting against unlawful imprisonment
23. The Union strategy to block Southern ports and split the Confederacy during the Civil War
24. The belief that the United States was destined to expand westward across North America
26. Supreme Court case ruling enslaved people were not citizens