U.S History Crossword Puzzle

He taught other slaves to read
state laws established to determine the status of slaves
a popular tree from the southwest area of the United States.
provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states.
a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery
A political party that began in 1854 and is today one of the two major political parties in the United States.
saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves;
he war fought in the United States between northern (Union) and southern (Confederate) states from 1861 to 1865, in which the Confederacy sought to establish itself as a separate nation
An executive order issued on January 1, 1863, by president Lincoln freeing slaves in all portions of the United States not then under Union control.
prohibited slavery
gave former slaves citizenship
guaranteed free slaves the right to vote
employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda
a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas
characterized by a lack of competition, which can mean higher prices and inferior products
describing a fusion of nationalities, cultures and ethnicities in the 1908 play of the same name.
a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants
American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States.
tate and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
allowed direct election of senators by voters
gave congress the power to tax individuals on their income