Topic 8 Vocab Crossword

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