crossword topic 8

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Across
  1. 1. a Virginia town that was the site of the Confederate surrender in 1865
  2. 4. the unfair treatment of people based on their gender
  3. 6. government rules that set limits or standards for businesses
  4. 7. the right not to be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime
  5. 10. an agreement proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slave and free states equal
  6. 13. agreeing or accepting something without arguing about it
  7. 14. unable to be changed
  8. 15. an 1863 Civil War battle in Pennsylvania that ended in a Union victory and stopped the Confederate invasion of the North
  9. 17. an 1863 declaration by President Lincon freeing enslaved African Americans in Confederate territory
  10. 18. an agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed
  11. 19. an African American unit in the Union army
  12. 22. a person who dies for his or her beliefs
  13. 23. an 1857 Supreme Court case that brought into question the federal power over slavery in the territories
  14. 26. the bipartisan antislavery party founded in the United States in 1848 to keep slavery out of the western territories
  15. 28. the speech made by president lincoln in 1863 after the Battle of Gettysburg
  16. 31. an 1854 law that established the territories of Nebraska and Kansas, giving the settlers of each territory the right of popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery
  17. 33. an 1862 Civil War battle in Virginia; one of the Union’s worst defeats
  18. 35. a runaway
  19. 37. to withdraw from membership in a group
  20. 39. a place where guns are stored
  21. 43. something that comes before or is introductory to something
  22. 44. very important
  23. 45. making it easy for something to happen
  24. 47. one of two acts passed in 1793 and 1850 that provided for the capture and return of fugitive slaves
  25. 49. to strain through overuse.
  26. 50. a slave states that remained in the Union during the Civil War
  27. 51. to publicly state that some action or person is wrong or bad
  28. 52. an 1863 Civil War battle in Virginia; an important victory for the Confederacy
  29. 53. having to do with the most important part of an idea or of something
  30. 54. an 1862 Civil War battle in Tennesee that ended in a Union victory
  31. 55. a political party established in the United States in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of the western territories
Down
  1. 2. a war between people of the same country
  2. 3. a type of warfare in which small, informal military groups use surprise attacks and hit-and-run tactics
  3. 5. to be made up of
  4. 8. to suggest something without saying it directly or plainly
  5. 9. to make up for
  6. 11. the failed Confederate charge during the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg
  7. 12. an ironclad Union warship
  8. 16. a tax on people’s earnings
  9. 20. the first major battle of the Civil War; fought in Virginia in 1861; also called the Battle of Manassas
  10. 21. to keep in an existing state
  11. 24. government by consent of the governed
  12. 25. a betrayal of or action against one’s country
  13. 27. to find an answer or solution to something
  14. 29. a law that requires people of a certain age to enlist in the military
  15. 30. a rise in prices and a decrease in the value of money
  16. 32. proslavery bands from Missouri who often battled antislavery forces in Kansas
  17. 34. not eager to do something
  18. 36. a fort in South Carolina that was the site of an attack by the African American 54th Massachusetts Regiment in 1863
  19. 38. a northerner who opposed using force to keep the southern states in the Union
  20. 40. to surround and blockade an enemy town or position with troops in order to force it to surrender
  21. 41. to suggest something for people to consider
  22. 42. an 1862 Civil War battle in Maryland; also called the Battle of Sharpsburg
  23. 46. to prove something by being an example of it
  24. 48. an ironclad warship used by the Confederates in an attempt to break the Union blockade