Topic 8 vocab crossword

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