Mr. Pettit History Crossword Project

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