Across
- 2. - The bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. history, 12 hours of fighting in Maryland.
- 7. Rush - A mass migration to California for gold being discovered there.
- 10. Trail - The route followed by Mormons led by Brigham Young to settle in Utah.
- 14. Beecher Stowe - Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an anti-slavery novel that increased support for abolition in the North.
- 16. Trail - A major route used by settlers traveling west to Oregon in the mid-1800s.
- 19. Codes - Laws passed in Southern states after the Civil War to restrict the freedom and rights of former slaves.
- 20. Proclamation - Lincoln’s order declaring enslaved people in Confederate states free.
- 21. Movement - A reform movement aimed at reducing or banning alcohol consumption.
- 22. Bureau - A federal agency that helped formerly enslaved people with education, jobs, and legal assistance.
- 23. of 1850 - Meant to ease tensions between North and South, including a stricter Fugitive Slave Act for California being a free state.
- 24. - The Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist group, intimidated black citizens and terrorized them.
- 25. Plan - The Union’s strategy to defeat the Confederacy by blockading Southern ports and controlling the Mississippi River.
- 26. - A Northerner who moved South during Reconstruction, often viewed negatively by Southerners.
- 29. Amendment - Prohibited denying the right to vote based on race.
- 30. Northern Democrats who opposed the Civil War and wanted peace.
Down
- 1. - The movement to end slavery in the United States.
- 3. - A movement favoring native-born Americans over immigrants.
- 4. Act - An act that allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decide on slavery through popular sovereignty.
- 5. Sovereignty - The idea that citizens of a territory/state should decide on choices like slavery.
- 6. Brown - A radical American abolitionist, believing God told him to free slaves, fought for abolition through violence.
- 8. Amendment - Granted citizenship to all born in the U.S. and guaranteed equal protection under the law.
- 9. - To acquire new land and make it part of another country like California or Texas
- 11. Destiny - The belief that the United States was destined to expand westward by God.
- 12. Amendment - Amendment that officially abolished slavery in the United States
- 13. - The withdrawal of Southern states from the Union after Lincoln’s election.
- 15. Lincoln - President during the Civil War who worked to preserve the Union and later pushed to end slavery, 16th president.
- 17. Falls Convention -The first women’s rights convention in U.S. history (1848), with activists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susann B. Anthony.
- 18. Tubman - African American woman who helped hundreds of enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad.
- 27. Movements of the 1800s - A wave of movements seeking social change, including abolition, women’s rights, and temperance.
- 28. Ferry - John Brown’s attack on a federal arsenal in Virginia, which increased tensions before the Civil War.