Across |
4. | largest group of immigrants to U.S. between 1815 and 1860 |
5. | the freeing of slaves |
8. | escaped slave who became most prominent African American abolitionist |
9. | author of Nature, most famous American transcendentalist |
11. | first woman to earn medical degree in U.S. |
12. | transcendentalist poet who wrote the collection Leaves of Grass |
14. | popular, inexpensive newspapers of early 1800s |
17. | financial institution killed by President Andrew Jackson |
18. | started in 1838, many thousands of Native Americans died of sickness and exposure during their removal West |
19. | movement that tried to send African America "back" to Africa |
20. | for a U.S. state to withdraw from the Union made by our Constitution |
22. | 1848 convention - the beginning of America's women's rights movement |
25. | author of Walden, most prominent practitioner of transcendentalism |
30. | wrote The Last of the Mohicans |
33. | war hero elected president in 1840, first to die in office (a month after inauguration) |
35. | old practice of a political party choosing its candidates by small group |
38. | reject Jesus as God, believe God is not a Trinity but a Unity |
39. | Whig vice-president succeeded to White House in 1840, supported the Democrats mostly |
40. | belief that states could void any bad federal law |
41. | economic crisis during Van Buren's administration |
43. | South Carolinian, ex-vice president, chief proponent of nullification |
44. | led movement for free public education in Mass. and across the North |
45. | led reform of prisons and treatment of mentally ill |
46. | Kentuckian, pushed the Compromise of 1820, the nullification compromise through Congress |