Across
- 2. System in which Andrew Jackson would grant government positions to his loyal supporters
- 7. The U.S. President associated with the idea of Manifest Destiny(Last Name)
- 9. Where the first womens rights convention was held
- 10. North supported this, the south opposed it
- 12. The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a novel that galvanized anti-slavery sentiment (last name)
- 15. period of violent conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in the Kansas territory from 1854 to 1861
- 16. The battle that was the bloodiest single day in American history
- 18. First major battle of the Civil War
- 20. The "conductor" of the underground railroad
- 21. The trail used by thousands of pioneers traveling west in the 1840s and 1850s
- 24. The movement to spread American values and institutions across the continent
Down
- 1. The term for the Southern states during the Civil War
- 3. This fort was the sight of the first battle of the Civil War
- 4. Political Party that Lincoln belonged to
- 5. The Supreme Court decision that ruled African Americans could not be citizens and upheld slavery
- 6. The General of the Confederate Army.
- 8. The 1854 act that created two new territories and allowed settlers to decide whether they would allow slavery
- 11. Known as the great compromiser
- 13. The Missouri Compromise brought this state in as a free state
- 14. The speech (address) delivered by Abraham Lincoln that dedicated a battlefield as a national cemetery
- 17. The first state to secede the union.
- 19. The radical abolitionist who led a raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859 (last name)
- 22. The battle where General Lee surrendered to Grant, ending the Civil War.
- 23. The U.S. acquisition of territory from France in 1803, doubling its size
