Unit 2 Vocab

4. Call into question the integrity or validity. Often results in someone being removed from political standing or office.
6. Secret political party that responded to any questions about their actions with phrases like "I know nothing".
8. Rapid movement of people to a
10. Political party that opposed slavery's expansion.
13. Required that slaves be returned, even if they were found in free states.
16. Rights of people will not be waived by any state or the United States due to race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
17. Politician who was devoted to educational reform. Elected into the House of Representatives in 1848
19. 16th president, famous for the quote "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
22. A system in which a tenant can use farm land while the landlord gets some of the crops harvested on that land.
24. A 1,300 mile long trail from Illinois to Utah that was used by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
26. The name given to the southern states that seceded from the Union.
27. An African American evangelist, women's rights activist, and abolitionist who was born as a slave.
28. Granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized into the United States.
29. Belief that it was America's "God given right" to expand westward.
30. Agricultural system where landowners contributed their land and means of working to the people working the land.

1. Amendment that abolished slavery in every U.S. territory.
2. The action or an act of abolishing a system.
3. To join or become one with
5. People who opposed the civil war because they did not think it was worth fighting and was unconstitutional.
7. The government is made up of only the colony, country, or region's own citizens.
9. Born into slavery, after becoming free, she helped other slaves escape their owners through the Underground Railroad.
11. 2,000 mile long trail from Oregon to Missouri that was used to emigrate westward.
12. Time before a war.
14. Unwritten arrangement that resulted in the debated election of 1876 being put to rest and the Reconstruction Era coming to a close.
15. The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
18. A white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit.
20. Someone from the north who went to the south during the Reconstruction for profit.
21. Restrictive laws placed on African Americans to limit their freedoms.
23. Civil war battle that is known as the most deadly single day battle in American history.
25. Period of time between 1865 and 1877 where the United States tried to reintegrate the states the seceded from the union.