Topic 8 Crossword

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