Across
- 1. purchased for $5 million in 1819 from Spain
- 3. 13, 14, 15... "free citizens ________"
- 10. I said "The South should be welcomed back with kindness and forgiveness"
- 13. Polk used this as an excuse to extend our borders
- 15. Many Americans believed that expansion was our destiny
- 21. another name for tenant farmers on the plantations of their former masters
- 22. Cotton was the major cash-crop in this region
- 23. my novel made people in the north think differently about slavery
- 24. I gave supporters government jobs after I was elected... ppl called it the spoils system
- 25. Supreme Court Case declaring slaves to be property
- 26. Canals and railroads helped accelerate this era before the civil war
- 27. pro-slavery and anti-slavery people clashed here
- 28. This region sold cotton to England and hated tariffs
- 29. I was an abolitionist who raided Harper's Ferry
Down
- 2. most cost-effective mode of transportation and shipping in the mid-1800's.
- 4. Eli Whitney invention - made things cheaper and faster to produce
- 5. I warned European powers to stay out of the Americas
- 6. demand for cotton in the North increased the need for these in the South
- 7. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony supported this
- 8. doubled the size of the U.S. in 1803
- 9. first African American to serve in the Senate
- 11. People moved to cities in search of jobs during this era
- 12. first Hispanic American to be awarded Congressional Medal of Honor
- 14. first major battle on northern soil; enabled Abe to issue Emancipation
- 16. compromises centered around the expansion of slavery into the ______________ .
- 17. Temperance movement reformers wanted to stop the consumption of ___________.
- 18. turning point; South could no longer invade the north
- 19. amendment that forced governments to treat citizens equally
- 20. Bureau created to help freed slaves