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Down: 1) First line across the continent from Omaha, Nebraska, to Sacramento, California, established in 1869 with the linkage of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads at Promontory, Utah. 2) Merchants with close commercial ties to the South. 3) In the aftermath of a close presidential election, an Electoral Commission declared Rutherford B. Hayes president contingent a variety of compromises and agreements upon his taking office. 6) Organized in 1816 to encourage colonization of free blacks to Africa; West African nation of Liberia founded in 1822 to serve as a homeland for them. 7) A reform movement advocating the moderation in consumption of liquor. 9) Most important slave uprising in nineteenth-century America, led by a slave preacher who, with his followers, killed about sixty white persons in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831. 10) After the Emancipation Proclamation, the Union army became an agent of emancipation. 11) A series of attempts by William Walker to establish himself as the leader of a Latin American country. 12) An ideology of the justification for slavery that covered a broad range of sources, including the Bible and economic theory. 15) After the war broke out, both sides were found unprepared as they lacked a national banking system. 16) An incident in which Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner was assaulted on the floor of the Senate by South Carolina congressman Preston S. Brooks over Sumner's accusation that a distant cousin of Brooks's had taken ''the harlot slavery'' as his mistress. 17) A decision that rejected the claim by butchers that their right to equality before the law had been violated. 23) Conservative white Democrats, many of them planters or businessmen, who reclaimed control of the South following the end of Reconstruction. Across: 4) Published in 1845, Margaret Fuller's work that sought to apply to women the transcendalist idea that freedom meant a quest for personal development. 5) Derisive term for northern emigrants who participated in the Republican governments of the Reconstruction South; Southern white Republicans—some former Unionists—who supported Reconstruction governments. 7) Texan non-Indian population of Spanish origin. 8) A document drafted by a pro-southern convention but never submitted to vote that attempted to admit Kansas as a slave state. 13) Southern women were often forced to manage business affairs, discipline slaves, but also stepped out of their traditional ''sphere'' to run commercial establishments and work in arms factories. 14) Once freed, blacks and their families were strengthened and become central to the postemancipation black community. Former slaves made remarkable efforts to locate loved ones from whom they had been separated under slavery. 18) President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary proclamation on September 22, 1862, freeing the slaves in areas under Confederate control as of January 1, 1863, the date of the final proclamation, which also authorized the enrollment of black soldiers into the Union army. 19) The revolution of Texas against Mexico led by Stephen Austin that resulted in Texas's independence in 1836. 20) Tax-supported state schools open to all children. 21) Law sponsored by Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas to allow settlers in newly organized territories north of the Missouri border to decide the slavery issue for themselves; fury over the resulting repeal of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 led to violence in Kansas and to the formation of the Republican Party. 22) A conspiracy that reflect the combination of American and African influences of the time; Denmark Vesey, a slave carpenter in South Carolina, took to rebuking blacks who stepped off the city's sidewalks to allow whites to pass. 24) Outlawed racial discrimination in places of public accommodation like hotels and theaters. 25) Violence between pro- and antislavery settlers in the Kansas Territory, 1856. 26) Founded in 1833 to organize efforts devoted to abolition. 27) Along with the Fourteenth Amendment, guaranteed the rights of citizenship to former slaves. 28) Southern nationalists who hoped to split the Democratic party and the country and form an independent Southern Confederacy. 29) Referring to slavery's continued existence in the South after Northern abolition. 30) The smaller main army of the Confederacy. 31) The transformation of American government and society brought about by the Civil War. 32) A Democratic party platform that called for addition of both Texas and Oregon to the Union to appease differing points of views on the issues. 33) Gave federal government authority in cases involving runaway slaves; aroused considerable opposition in the North. 34) Escaped slaves fleeing from recapture by their owners.
 

 

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