Unit 2 American History

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Across
  1. 4. The act of leaving the Union
  2. 6. The 16th president of the United States
  3. 8. Founder of the Mormon religion
  4. 11. To formally accuse a public official
  5. 13. The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
  6. 14. To add territory
  7. 16. An agency helping former slaves
  8. 21. Northern Democrats who opposed the war
  9. 22. A land deal with Mexico
  10. 23. A major route west
  11. 24. A rebellion by American settlers in Texas
  12. 26. Economic changes that improved transportation and industry
  13. 27. It was the bloodiest single day
  14. 30. A movement to reduce alcohol consumption
  15. 31. A Supreme Court case denying citizenship to enslaved people
Down
  1. 1. The belief that the U.S. should expand westward
  2. 2. She led the Underground Railroad
  3. 3. The first women’s rights convention
  4. 5. A proposal to ban slavery in new territories
  5. 7. A nurse during the Civil War
  6. 9. He promoted public schooling; he believed education was essential to democracy
  7. 10. He published The Liberator
  8. 12. The group of Southern states that seceded
  9. 15. A Union strategy to defeat the South
  10. 17. A movement to end slavery
  11. 18. The site of John Brown’s raid
  12. 19. The route taken by Mormons to Utah
  13. 20. A former enslaved person and abolitionist leader
  14. 25. A reformer who worked to improve treatment of the mentally ill;she pushed for better hospitals
  15. 28. Opposition to immigrants
  16. 29. A term meaning before the Civil War