topic 8 vocab words

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