Topic 8 Civil War

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Across
  1. 5. a tax on people’s earnings
  2. 8. a notherner who opposed using force to keep southern states in the Union
  3. 9. an agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed
  4. 11. to withdraw from membership in a group
  5. 12. unable to be changed
  6. 16. an 1862 Civil War battle in Virginia; one of the Union’s worst defeats
  7. 21. one of two acts passed in 1793 and 1850 that provided for the capture and return of fugitive slaves
  8. 22. 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
  9. 24. an 1862 Cival War battle in Maryland; also called the Battle of Sharpsburg
  10. 27. to suggest something for people to consider.
  11. 28. proslavery bands from Missouri who often battled antislavery forces in Kansas
  12. 29. Proclamation: an 1863 declaration by President Lincoln freeing enslaved African Americans in Confederate territory
  13. 30. a betrayal of or action against one’s country
  14. 31. something that comes before or is introductory to something
  15. 35. an African American unit in the Union Army
  16. 38. the first major battle of the Civil War; fought in Virginia in 1861; also called Battle of Manassas
  17. 42. to suggest something without saying it directly or plainly
  18. 44. to find an answer or solution to something
  19. 45. an 1863 Civil War battle in Virginia; important victory for the Confederacy
  20. 46. a fort in South Carolina that was the site of an attack by the African Americans 54th Massachusetts Regiment in 1863
  21. 47. the speech made by President Licncoln in 1863 after the Battle of Gettysburg
  22. 48. a political party established in the United States in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of western territories
Down
  1. 1. to prove something by being an example of it
  2. 2. a Virginia town that was the site of the Confederate surrender in 1865
  3. 3. not eager to do something
  4. 4. an 1857 Supreme Court case that brought into question the federal power over slavery in the territories
  5. 5. a rise in prices and a decrease in the value of money
  6. 6. to be made up of
  7. 7. government by constant of the government
  8. 10. an ironclad warship used by the Confederates in an attempt to break the Union blockade
  9. 13. the failed Confederate charge during the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg
  10. 14. a place where guns are stored
  11. 15. an 1863 Civil War battle in Pennsylvannia that ended in a Union victory and stopepd the Confederate invasion of the North
  12. 17. having to do with the most important part of an idea or something
  13. 18. to publicily state that some action or person is wrong or bad
  14. 19. a person who dies for his or her beliefs
  15. 20. very important
  16. 23. to keep in an existing state1.
  17. 25. a war between people of the same country
  18. 26. making it easy for something to happen
  19. 29. a law that requires people of a certain age to enlist in the military
  20. 32. agreeing or accepting something without arguing about it
  21. 33. to surround and blockade an enemy town or position with troops in order to force it to surrender
  22. 34. an 1862 Civil War battle in Tennessee that ended in a Union victory
  23. 36. the bipartisan antislavery party founded in the United States in 1848 to keep slaves out of the western territories
  24. 37. a type of warfare in which small, infromal military groups use suprise attacks and hit-and-run tactics
  25. 38. a runaway
  26. 39. a slave state that remained in the Union during the Civil War
  27. 40. an agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slave and free states equal
  28. 41. the right not to be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime
  29. 43. an ironclad Union warship