Unit 2 Vocab

4. Born into slavery, after becoming free, she helped other slaves escape their owners through the Underground Railroad.
5. Granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized into the United States.
8. Time before a war.
10. Call into question the integrity or validity. Often results in someone being removed from political standing or office.
12. Someone from the north who went to the south during the Reconstruction for profit.
15. Period of time between 1865 and 1877 where the United States tried to reintegrate the states the seceded from the union.
18. An African American evangelist, women's rights activist, and abolitionist who was born as a slave.
19. A white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit.
20. 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.
22. Politician who was devoted to educational reform. Elected into the House of Representatives in 1848
24. Secret political party that responded to any questions about their actions with phrases like "I know nothing".
26. To join or become one with
27. Belief that it was America's "God given right" to expand westward.
28. The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
30. Amendment that abolished slavery in every U.S. territory.

1. Rapid movement of people to a
2. Civil war battle that is known as the most deadly single day battle in American history.
3. Political party that opposed slavery's expansion.
6. Agricultural system where landowners contributed their land and means of working to the people working the land.
7. Restrictive laws placed on African Americans to limit their freedoms.
9. Rights of people will not be waived by any state or the United States due to race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
11. 16th president, famous for the quote "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
13. Required that slaves be returned, even if they were found in free states.
14. 2,000 mile long trail from Oregon to Missouri that was used to emigrate westward.
16. A system in which a tenant can use farm land while the landlord gets some of the crops harvested on that land.
17. Unwritten arrangement that resulted in the debated election of 1876 being put to rest and the Reconstruction Era coming to a close.
21. People who opposed the civil war because they did not think it was worth fighting and was unconstitutional.
23. The action or an act of abolishing a system.
25. The name given to the southern states that seceded from the Union.
29. The government is made up of only the colony, country, or region's own citizens.