Extra Credit Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. African American unit in the Union army
  2. 5. Government by consent of the governed
  3. 10. Law passed in 1850 that provided for the capture and return of fugitive slaves
  4. 12. An agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slave and free states equal
  5. 14. A war between people of the same country
  6. 15. 1863 declaration by President Lincoln freeing enslaved African Americans in Confederate territory
  7. 16. he author of 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  8. 18. The speech made by President Lincoln in 1863 after the Battle of Gettysburg
  9. 20. 1863 Civil War battle in Pennsylvania that ended in a Union victory and stopped the Confederate invasion of the North
  10. 21. 1862 Civil War battle in Virginia; one of the Union’s worst defeats
  11. 22. Proslavery bands from Missouri who often battled antislavery forces in Kansas
  12. 23. A person who dies for his or her beliefs
Down
  1. 1. An agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed
  2. 2. 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
  3. 3. 1863 Civil War battle in Virginia; important victory for the Confederacy
  4. 6. A Virginia town that was the site of the Confederate surrender in 1865
  5. 7. A runaway
  6. 8. 1862 Civil War battle in Tennessee that ended in a Union victory
  7. 9. A political party established in the United States in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of the western territories
  8. 11. Ironclad warship used by the Confederates in an attempt to break the Union blockade
  9. 13. To withdraw from membership in a group
  10. 17. The right not to be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime
  11. 19. First major battle of the Civil War; fought in Virginia in 1861; a;so called the Battle of Manassas