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