Topic 8 History Project 3rd Hour
Across
- 2. the right to be charged or have a hearing before being sent to jail
- 3. African Americans that fled slavery
- 5. Americans that opposed using force to keep the South in the Union
- 7. law that freed slaves from slave states that weren't the four states that allied with the Union or already conquered slave states
- 12. states that stayed slave states in the union like Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware
- 15. requirement of all able-bodied men to serve military time
- 16. the three-day battle that was one of the most significant battles of the Civil War
- 26. remove themselves
- 28. battle that showed how badly both Union and Confederate soldiers needed training
- 29. general rise in prices and decrease in value of money
- 30. not eager
- 31. making it easy for something to happen
- 32. Union warship
- 33. weapons and ammunition warehouse
- 34. fort near Charleston that nearly all of the 54th regiment's people were killed in
- 35. willingness to accept laws whether or not a person agreed with those laws
- 37. tax on people's earnings
- 38. something that comes before or is introductory
- 39. to suggest without saying directly or plainly
- 40. case where a slave argued that he should be free since his owner died but was ruled against because he was not a citizen and the Supreme Court ruled that slaves were property
- 42. warfare in which small, informal military groups use surprise attacks and hit and run tactics
- 43. antislavery members of both Democrats and Whigs parties
- 44. to be made up of
- 46. act that separated Kansas and Nebraska and let popular sovereignty decide if they would be free or slave states
- 47. to keep in an existing state
Down
- 1. battle where the Union was beaten in just three days
- 4. Lincoln's speech that showed his leadership in a time of grief and crisis where he dedicated a cemetery to the fallen soldiers in the Battle of Gettysburg
- 6. the right of the people to create their government
- 8. military regiment that accepted African Americans
- 9. someone willing to give up their life for their beliefs
- 10. battle where neither Union or Confederates were the clear winners but Lee withdrew and the Union won
- 11. one of the Union's worst defeats
- 12. one of the bloodiest encounters in the civil war
- 13. actions against one's country
- 14. compromise for free states and slave states to both get what they want
- 17. very important
- 18. amendment that could not be changed
- 19. the town where Confederate soldiers retreated to then be trapped by the Union army and surrendered
- 20. proslavery bands that battled the antislavery forces in Kansas
- 21. to prove something by being an example of it
- 22. General George Pickett's attack with 15,000 men in the center of Union lines
- 23. abandoned Union warship that was taken by Confederates
- 24. a group of antislavery people from different parties in Michigan in 1854 that opposed slavery and wanted to stop it from spreading west
- 25. where a military force encircles an enemy position and blockades and bombards it in order to force it to surrender
- 27. agreement for Missouri to be a slave state and Maine to be a free state
- 36. war between people of the same country
- 41. to publicly say that someone or something is wrong or bad
- 45. basically, fundamentally, in essence