Mr Pettit Topic 8 Dylan McLain

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