Topic 8 Crossword

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