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- 5. social reform effort, primarily in the U.S. and UK, aimed at curbing or prohibiting the consumption of alcohol
- 7. a historic town pivotal to American history as the site of John Brown’s 1859 abolitionist raid, which catalyzed the Civil War
- 9. a league or alliance, especially of confederate states
- 15. a roughly 2,000-mile, heavily used overland emigration route in U.S. history
- 16. a 1861 Union strategy proposed by General-in-Chief Winfield Scott to win the Civil War by strangling the Confederacy
- 19. the action or process of reconstructing or being reconstructed
- 22. a legal right that protects against unlawful imprisonment, demanding that a person being held must be brought before a judge to determine if their detention is legal
- 24. laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of Black voters
- 26. the principle granting local governments the authority to manage their own affairs
- 27. the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants
- 28. American nurse, teacher, and humanitarian who founded the American Red Cross
- 29. a rebellion by Texian (Anglo-American) and Tejano (Hispanic Texan) settlers against the centralist government of Mexico
- 30. charge (the holder of a public office) with misconduct
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- 1. American belief that the United States was divinely ordained to expand its dominion, democracy, and capitalism across the entire North American continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific
- 2. an American religious leader who founded the Latter Day Saint movement
- 3. occurring or existing before a particular war, especially the American Civil War
- 4. a derogatory nickname for white Southerners who supported the Republican Party during the Reconstruction era
- 6. the 16th U.S. President (1861–1865), leading the nation through the Civil War and ending slavery
- 8. the act of officially ending or stopping something
- 10. an American Republican politician, minister, and educator who made history as the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress
- 11. an enslaved African American man who sued for his freedom
- 12. pioneering 19th-century American social reformer, author, and teacher who revolutionized care for the mentally ill
- 13. (of a tenant farmer) cultivate (farmland) giving a part of each crop as rent
- 14. a vocal faction of Northern Democrats (Peace Democrats) during the American Civil War (1861–1865) who strongly opposed the war
- 17. the bloodiest single-day engagement in American history, with over 22,000 casualties
- 18. a radical American abolitionist who believed in armed insurrection to overthrow the institution of slavery
- 20. the formal, often unilateral, withdrawal of a state, region, or group from a larger political entity to become independent or join another entity
- 21. Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is an American white supremacist hate group, established in 1865
- 23. an American educator, Whig politician, and abolitionist known as the "Father of the Common School" for spearheading the 19th-century public education reform movement
- 25. append or add as an extra or subordinate part, especially to a document