Vocab #2

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3. A formerly enslaved person who became a powerful speaker and writer against slavery.
5. A former enslaved woman who led many enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
7. A slave uprising in Virginia led by Nat Turner in 1831.
8. The site of John Brown’s 1859 raid on a federal arsenal in an attempt to start a slave revolt.
10. The belief that women’s proper role was in the home, focusing on family and moral guidance.
13. The belief that the United States was destined to expand westward across North America.
17. The act of Southern states withdrawing from the Union before the Civil War.
18. An order issued by Abraham Lincoln freeing enslaved people in Confederate-held territory.
21. An deal that settled the intensely disputed presidential election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden.
23. Required that escaped enslaved people be returned to their enslavers even if they were found in free states.
24. The movement to end slavery in the United States.
26. An enslaved man whose Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens and could not sue in federal court.
27. A mass migration of people to California after gold was discovered there in 1848.
28. A reform effort aimed at reducing or banning the consumption of alcohol.
29. To add territory to a country or state.
30. A war between the United States and Mexico that resulted in the U.S. gaining large territories in the West.

1. A white supremacist organization formed after the Civil War that used violence and intimidation against African Americans and their supporters.
2. A leading abolitionist who demanded the immediate end of slavery.
4. The legal right that protects individuals from being held in jail without being brought before a court.
6. A farming system in which tenants worked land owned by someone else in exchange for a share of the crops.
9. A trade route connecting Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
11. Laws passed in the South after the Civil War to restrict the rights and freedoms of formerly enslaved people.
12. A Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War, often to take part in politics or business.
14. The 16th president of the United States, who led the country during the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
15. The idea that settlers in a territory should decide whether to allow slavery.
16. An education reformer who promoted free public schooling and is known as the “Father of the Common School Movement.”
19. The group of Southern states that seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America.
20. A major route used by pioneers traveling west to settle in Oregon and other western territories.
22. A social reformer who worked to improve conditions for the mentally ill and helped establish state mental hospitals.
25. The founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism).