Origins, Manifest Destiny, & Civil War

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Across
  1. 1. religious movement that encouraged the belief that people should work towards moral perfection
  2. 5. author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
  3. 9. president who leads the US through the Civil War and ends slavery (last name only)
  4. 12. declared that slaves in the southern states were to be freed
  5. 13. general who led the union to victory of the civil war
  6. 14. senator who came up with the plan to split Nebraska into two territories
  7. 16. fervent reformers who sought a gradual or immediate end to slavery
  8. 17. organized the Seneca Falls Convention (middle and last name only)
  9. 20. forced march of Native Americans from GA to OK
  10. 21. northern strategy to starve the Confederacy
  11. 23. permitted voters to decide whether to allow slavery un their state
Down
  1. 2. bill that said slavery should not be allowed in the new territories; opening shot of the argument to cause the war
  2. 3. declaration in which the united states asserted that the monarchies of Europe had no business meddling with American republics
  3. 4. runaway slave who started the underground railroad
  4. 6. most respected general of the Civil War for the South
  5. 7. admitted CA as a free state
  6. 8. political party that favored a strong federal government to manage and grow the economy
  7. 10. act passed by Congress in 1830 that allowed the federal government to negotiate land trades with the Indians in the Southeast
  8. 11. 7th President; responsible for the trail of tears
  9. 15. leader of women's rights and temperance movement
  10. 18. idea that the US was destined by God to occupy territory spanning from the atlantic to pacific oceans
  11. 19. escaped slave turned abolitionist
  12. 22. slave that sued for his freedom based on the fact that he had traveled with his master into free territory