Across
- 2. Linked the east and west coast by train in 1869
- 4. Gave settlers free land to encourage western expansion.
- 6. law to limit monopolies and promote competition.
- 8. The northern states fighting to preserve the United States during the Civil War.
- 12. Divided Native American lands into private plots to promote assimilation.
- 13. Violent conflicts between pro- and anti-slavery settlers in the mid-1850s.
- 14. Era marked by wealth, industrial growth, and political corruption.
- 19. Steel industry magnate and major philanthropist.
- 20. Political movement supporting farmers and common people against big business.
- 22. Klan Secret group that used violence to oppose Reconstruction reforms.
- 25. Abolished slavery in the United States.
- 26. Growth of factories and mass production in the late 1800s.
- 27. Southern laws used to limit the rights of freed African Americans.
- 29. 1896 Supreme Court case that upheld “separate but equal” segregation.
- 30. Enslaved man who sued for freedom; case ruled African Americans weren’t citizens.
Down
- 1. Gave African American men the right to vote.
- 3. Abolitionist who led a raid on Harpers Ferry.
- 5. Allowed territories to choose whether to allow slavery by popular vote.
- 7. Group of southern states that formed a new nation during the Civil War.
- 9. Act Required citizens to help capture escaped enslaved people.
- 10. Granted citizenship to all people born in the U.S.
- 11. Turning point Civil War battle fought in Pennsylvania in 1863.
- 15. Lincoln’s 1863 order freeing enslaved people in Confederate states.
- 16. Organization created to help former enslaved people adjust to freedom.
- 17. Organization of workers seeking better pay and working conditions.
- 18. Law package meant to ease tension over slavery in new territories.
- 21. Founder of Standard Oil and symbol of big business power.
- 23. System of laws enforcing segregation in the South.
- 24. Period of rebuilding and reintegration of the South after the Civil War.
- 28. The act of southern states leaving the Union before the Civil War.
