Topic 8 Vocab. Crossword

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