Across
- 7. illegal manipulation of contracts based on construction and finance companies
- 8. war fought between the U.S. and Mexico due to a territorial lad dispute
- 10. A rapid influx of fortune seekers to the sit of new gold sites
- 11. turning point in the Civil War
- 13. the 7th president of the united states also known as "Old Hickory"
- 16. a military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott
- 18. granted citizenship to all persons "born or neutralized in the United States" including all enslaved people
- 19. extending the American citizenship to people of black so they could live under the rights of the constitution
- 20. a territory could determine whether or not to allow slavery based on popular sovereignty
Down
- 1. abolished slavery as an institution in all U.S. states and territories
- 2. landowner allows the use of farmland for a share of crops in return
- 3. a term Lincoln noted to be a conflict between the north and south over slavery
- 4. Mexico ceded upper California and New Mexico to the U.S.
- 5. provided 160 acers of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land
- 6. laws passed in southern U.S. that enforced racial segregation; was crutial for black voters
- 9. repelled the Missouri compromise and created two new territories
- 12. the ordained right of the U.S. to expand its borders beyond the pacific
- 14. marked the official beginning of the American Civil War
- 15. granted African American men the right to vote
- 17. war between the union and the confederacy