Mr. Pettit History Crossword Project

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Across
  1. 2. A political party established in the United States in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of the western territories.
  2. 3. Making it easy for something to happen.
  3. 5. Government by consent of the governed.
  4. 9. A war between people of the same country.
  5. 11. Very Important.
  6. 12. An agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed.
  7. 14. To suggest something without saying it directly or plainly.
  8. 15. Proslavery bands from Missouri who often battled antislavery forces in Kansas.
  9. 16. A settlement or peaceful solution in which each side gives up some of its demands in order to reach an agreement or peacful solution.
  10. 18. An 1857 Supreme Court case that brought into question the federal power over slavery in the territories.
  11. 20. An 1863 Civil War battle in Pennsylvania that ended in a Union victory and stopped the Confederate invasion of the North.
  12. 23. A betrayal of or action against one's country.
  13. 25. A runaway.
  14. 27. A slave state that remained in the Union during the Civil War.
  15. 30. To withdraw from membership in a group.
  16. 33. The bipartisan antislavery party was founded in the United States in 1848 to keep slavery out of the western territories.
  17. 35. The failed COnfederate charge during the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
  18. 36. 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.
  19. 37. To publicly state that some action or person is wrong or bad.
  20. 39. Something that comes before or is introductory to something.
  21. 40. To surround and blockade an enemy town or position with troops in order to force it to surrender.
  22. 42. An 1862 Civil War battle in Tennessee that ended in a Union victory.
  23. 43. Not eager to do something.
  24. 44. To find an answer or solution to something.
  25. 48. A tax on people's earnings.
  26. 49. To keep in an existing state.
  27. 50. An 1863 declaration by President Lincoln freeing enslaved African Americans in Confederate territory.
  28. 51. The speech made by President Lincoln in 1863 after the Battle of Gettysburg.
Down
  1. 1. A Virginia town that was the sire of the Confederate surrender in 1865.
  2. 4. A fort in South Carolina that was the sire of an attack by the African American 54th Massachusetts Regiment in 1863.
  3. 6. An agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slave and free states equal.
  4. 7. The first major battle of the Civil War; fought in Virginia in 1861; also called the Battle of Manassas.
  5. 8. An ironclad Union warship.
  6. 10. An 1862 Civil War in Maryland; also called the Battle of Sharpsburg.
  7. 13. One of two acts passed in 1793 and 1850 that provided for the capture and return of fugitive slaves.
  8. 17. An African American unit in the Union army.
  9. 19. A northerner who opposed using force to keep the southern states in the Union.
  10. 21. Unable to be changed.
  11. 22. An 1873 Civil War battle in Virginia; important victory for the Confederacy.
  12. 24. To prove something by being an example of it.
  13. 26. A rise in prices and a decrease in the value of money.
  14. 28. Agreeing or accepting something without arguing about it.
  15. 29. To suggest something for people to consider.
  16. 31. An 1862 Civil War battle in Virginia, one of the Union's worst defeats.
  17. 32. A place where guns are stored.
  18. 34. A type of warfare in which small, informal military groups use surprise attacks and hit-and-run tactics.
  19. 38. The right not to be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime.
  20. 41. Having to do with the most important part of an idea or something.
  21. 45. An ironclad warship used by the Confederates in an attempt to break the Union blockade.
  22. 46. A law that requires people of a certain age to enlist in the military.
  23. 47. A person who dies for his or her beliefs.