Crossword Puzzle Review Chapter 1

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  1. 4. a speech delivered in 1863 by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the site of one of the most decisive battles of the American Civil War.
  2. 7. a term used to describe the ongoing struggle over political power in the United States between the federal government and individual states as broadly outlined in the Tenth Amendment and whether the USA is a single entity or an amalgamation of independent nations.
  3. 10. Stephen Douglas's doctrine that, in spite of the Dred Scott decision, slavery could be excluded from territories of the United States by local legislation.
  4. 13. a village in central Virginia where the Confederate army under Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces on April 9, 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War.
  5. 14. site of one of the most decisive campaigns of the American Civil War, in which the Confederates were besieged for nearly seven weeks before capitulating.
  6. 15. loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.
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  1. 1. a small town in S Pennsylvania, southwest of Harrisburg: scene of a crucial battle during the American Civil War, in which Meade's Union forces defeated Lee's Confederate army
  2. 2. a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.
  3. 3. a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain while implying that the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused
  4. 5. admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
  5. 6. American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.
  6. 8. an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.
  7. 9. the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.
  8. 11. a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.
  9. 12. repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty