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- 2. Radical abolitionist responsible for the Pottawatomie Massacre
- 5. The treaty to the Mexican American war in 1848
- 7. Confederate General and first Grand Wizard of the KKK.
- 12. African Americans leaving the South during Reconstruction.
- 14. Laws restricting the rights of African Americans in regards to land ownership, business, etc.
- 15. Northerners settling in the South to take advantage of Reconstruction.
- 17. War Strategy promoted by General Grant in which Union forces destroyed civilian crops, livestock, fields, and property
- 18. Civil War hero for the Union as well as the 18th president
- 24. Union General famous for use of total war strategy against the South.
- 25. Total war tactics on captured land between Georgia and the Carolinas led by General Sherman
- 26. Series of violent disputes over the free/slave state status of Kansas.
- 27. Pro-slavery senator from South Carolina
- 30. Right to vote declared regardless of color or race.
- 31. 16th U.S. President.
- 32. The rapid influx of migrants into California after the discovery of gold in 1848
- 34. Antislavery Whig senator from New York. Negotiated the purchase of Alaska.
- 35. 1854 document advocating for the U.S. annexation of Cuba.
- 36. First Union General to die in the Civil War.
- 37. Economic depression beginning in 1873.
- 38. Former slave denied rights of citizenship by Supreme Court.
- 39. Confederate attack on this military garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War.
- 40. Law that expanded on Benjamin Butler’s contraband and allowed the confiscation of Confederate property
- 41. Prominent suffragist and abolitionist.
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- 1. Raid on the Harpers Ferry armory to instigate a slave revolt.
- 3. proposing to Constitutionalize slavery.
- 4. Confederate General and commander of the Army of Northern Virginia.
- 6. Speech at the dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery , November 19th 1863.
- 8. Proposed the legislation to try and outlaw slavery from territory gained in the treaty of Gaudalupe Hidalgo
- 9. Founder and editor of the New York Tribune newspaper.
- 10. 1854 Act that allowed the citizens of Kansas and Nebraska to vote on whether or not they would by a free or slave state
- 11. Amendment to the constitution Abolishing Slavery in 1865
- 13. Founded the Women’s National Loyal League along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone
- 16. Route West of the Missouri River and 2170 Miles long. By 1860 350,000 Americans made trip
- 19. Proclamation that declared all enslaved people “forever free”
- 20. Confederate General during the American Civil War.
- 21. Term introduced by John L O’Sullivan in 1845 to describe the nation’s God-Given right to expand its borders
- 22. Murder of five proslavery advocates by John Brown and other abolitionists using broadswords.
- 23. Tenant farming that replaced the slavery system in the South.
- 28. Period following Civil War in which efforts were made to address the wrongs of slavery, etc.
- 29. Bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
- 33. Stage actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
