Period 5 APUSH

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Across
  1. 5. a historic fort located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
  2. 8. 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849
  3. 13. a farming system where a tenant (the sharecropper) rents land from a landowner in exchange for a share of the crops produced on that land
  4. 14. a type of US paper currency, specifically United States Notes, that was first issued during the Civil War
  5. 16. 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.
  6. 17. American lawyer and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives
  7. 18. abolished slavery and involuntary servitude throughout the United States, except as punishment for a crime
  8. 20. a political doctrine that posits that the power of the government comes from the consent of the governed
  9. 22. the US Supreme Court ruled that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, were not and could not be citizens of the United States
Down
  1. 1. a person who seeks to profit by the spoils system; a person who supports this system.
  2. 2. American politician most notable for being the political boss of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party's political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th-century New York City and State.
  3. 3. residents of a U.S. territory could effectively ban slavery by not enacting laws to protect it, even if federal law permitted it
  4. 4. a 19th-century belief that the United States was destined, by God, to expand across the entire North American continent
  5. 6. prohibits denying or abridging the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude
  6. 7. a border dispute and military standoff between the United States and Great Britain in 1838-1839 over the Northeast boundary between Maine (a state of the U.S.) and British-ruled New Brunswick (Canada)
  7. 9. a significant economic crisis in the United States, beginning in August 1857 and lasting until 1861
  8. 10. granted 160 acres of federal land to any adult U.S. citizen or person intending to become one, in exchange for a small filing fee and the requirement to live on and cultivate the land for five years
  9. 11. a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution, took place from February 23 to March 6, 1836, at the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, Texas
  10. 12. the first major land battle of the American Civil War, fought on July 21, 1861
  11. 15. the tenth president of the United States, serving from 1841 to 1845
  12. 19. 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869
  13. 21. a pivotal document that addresses citizenship and equal protection under the law