APUSH Unit 5

4. A senator from Illinois who ran from president against Abraham Lincoln
6. Amendment that secured blacks right to vote and protected citizens rights to vote.
8. Agricultural system where landowners let farmers use land in return for large share of crops
11. Withdrawling from the Union
14. Laws that denied the legal rights to newly freed slaves
16. A abolitionist who attempted to lead a slave revolt by capturing Americans in the south.
17. Election in which Lincoln won because the Democrats were so split over slavery
18. A formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office.
19. Someone who works to end slavery
20. Belief that the US was destined by God to expand from East to West.

1. An act that offered 160 acres of land free for anyone who agreed to live on the land and take care of the land.
2. Amendment that abolished slavery in the US
3. The treaty that settled the border of Texas and Mexico at the Rio Grande River.
5. 11 former US states that seceded from the Union.
7. A political Party that was dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery
9. A war caused by Mexico not selling California and unable to settle the Mexico-Texas border.
10. A rush of people into California as a result of gold being found.
12. A federal fort in the harbor of Charleston. When the confederates attacked this fort, it began the Civil War.
13. The 16th president of the US who helped preserve the US by defeating the secessionist confederacy
15. The bloodiest single-day battle in American History. The first major battle of the American Civil War to take place on Northern Soil.