Across
- 2. American prophet and founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- 5. An unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War
- 9. The idea that white Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America
- 10. A wagon road stretching 2170 miles from Missouri to Oregon's Willamette Valley
- 13. The voluntary withdrawal of one or more states from the Union that constitutes the United States
- 16. A formerly enslaved man who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker
- 18. A commercial highway connecting Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico
- 20. "Before the war"
- 22. To acquire new land and make it part of another country
- 24. An escaped enslaved woman who became a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad
- 25. Was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois. A senator, he was one of two nominees of the badly split Democratic Party for president in the 1860 presidential election
- 26. American religious leader, second president of the Mormon church, and colonizer who significantly influenced the development of the American West
- 28. A pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway enslaved people within the territory of the United States
- 29. Played an instrumental role in the founding or expansion of more than 30 hospitals for the treatment of the mentally ill.
- 30. A rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831
Down
- 1. Rapid influx of fortune seekers to the site of newly discovered gold deposits
- 3. An invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848
- 4. Government based on consent of the people
- 6. Five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery and territorial expansion
- 7. System of cultural beliefs or ideals in the 19th century that governed gender roles in upper- and middle-class society
- 8. A printer, newspaper publisher, radical abolitionist, suffragist, civil rights activist
- 11. War fought from October 1835 to April 1836 between Mexico and Texas colonists that resulted in Texas's independence from Mexico and the founding of the Republic of Texas
- 12. The first women's rights convention in the United States
- 14. Was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico
- 15. American writer and philanthropist, the author of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which contributed so much to popular feeling against slavery that it is cited among the causes of the American Civil War
- 17. Movement dedicated to promoting moderation and, more often, complete abstinence in the use of intoxicating liquor
- 19. The route taken by Mormons from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Great Salt Lake in what would become the state of Utah
- 21. The movement that sought to end slavery in the country
- 23. A period in the 1820s-1830s in which the economy and society shifted from moral economies to a capitalist system
- 27. A school reformer during the Reform Era. Also became the first secretary of education in Massachusetts