Across
- 2. The decision of a Supreme Court case that decided slaves were property, so the US government had no right to take them away if they were in a free state
- 6. The main cause of the Civil War; the act of owning a person for labor
- 10. The best APUSH teacher of all time
- 11. The idea that the US has a God-given right to expand from sea to sea
- 14. An act that called for California as a free state, but established the Fugitive Slave Law
- 18. The time period after the Civil War where the freed slaves got new rights and the South was brought back into the Union
- 19. The Amendment that gives all citizens equal protection under the laws of the US
- 21. The region given to America after the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
- 24. Someone who is anti-immigrant with Anglo-Saxon beliefs
- 25. The ideals of Northerners who disliked slavery because pf the negative impact on Northern business
Down
- 1. The new political party combined of Free Soilers, some democrats, and Whigs, that was against slavery
- 3. A speech from Abraham Lincoln that reshaped the purpose of the Civil War and honored that fallen soldiers from the Revolutionary War
- 4. An act that repealed the Missouri Compromise, which meant slavery would now be decided based on Popular Sovereignty in new states
- 5. A system used in the South that prevented former slaves from gaining new land as they lacked the money for it; they continued working on plantations to old slave owners
- 7. The idea of enlarging a country’s area
- 8. Someone who was against slavery, typically because it was morally wrong
- 9. The act of leaving a country; what the South did after the election of Abraham Lincoln
- 12. The act of separating people in public spaces based on race, which was used at the end of Reconstruction
- 13. The war that began after the Annexation of Texas over land boundaries between the US and Mexico
- 15. The first republican president who served as the leader of the Union in the Civil War
- 16. The short-lived political party that was against the expansion of slavery in new territory
- 17. The Amendment that banned slavery in the US
- 19. The Amendment that gave all black men the right to vote
- 20. The title of the seceded states during the Civil War
- 22. The War from 1861-1865 over slavery and state’s rights between the Northern and Southern United States
- 23. The title of the Northern States during the Civil War
