Topic Eight Vocab Words

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Across
  1. 4. an agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed
  2. 6. an 1863 Civil War battle in Virginia; important victory for the Confederacy
  3. 10. an ironclad warship used by the Confederates
  4. 14. not eager to do something
  5. 17. to suggest something without saying it directly or plainly
  6. 19. to prove something by being an example in it
  7. 20. something that comes before or is introductory to something
  8. 22. to find an answer or solution to something
  9. 23. making it easy for something to happen
  10. 25. to keep in an existing state
  11. 27. to publicly state that some action or person is wrong or bad
  12. 28. very important
  13. 30. an 1862 Civil War battle in Maryland; also called the Battle of Sharpsburg
  14. 31. an 1862 Civil War battle in Virginia; one of the Union's worst defeats
  15. 35. a Virginia town that was the site of the Confederate surrender in 1865
  16. 37. the speech made by President Lincoln in 1863 after the Battle of Gettysburg
  17. 39. the right not to be held in prison without first being charged for a specific crime
  18. 42. an 1863 declaration by President Lincoln freeing enslaved African Americans in Confederate territory
  19. 44. an 1857 Supreme Court case that brought into question the federal power over slavery in the territories
  20. 45. the bipartisan antislavery party
  21. 46. to surround and blockade an enemy town or position with troops in order to force it to surrender
  22. 47. one of two acts passed in 1793 and 1850 that provided for the capture and return of fugitive slaves
  23. 48. an African American unit in the Union army
  24. 49. a political party established in the United States in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of western territories
Down
  1. 1. proslavery bands from Missouri who often battled antislavery forces in Kansas
  2. 2. unable to be changed
  3. 3. a slave state that remained in the Union during the Civil War
  4. 5. an agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slave states and free states equal
  5. 7. a runaway
  6. 8. a war between people of the same country
  7. 9. a fort in South Carolina that was the site of an attack by the African American 54th Massachusetts Regiment in 1853
  8. 11. to suggest something for people to consider
  9. 12. a law that requires people of a certain age to enlist in the military
  10. 13. an 1863 Civil War battle in Pennsylvania that ended in a Union victory and stopped the Confederate invasion of the North
  11. 15. an 1862 Civil War battle in Tennessee that ended in a Union victory
  12. 16. government by consent of the governed
  13. 17. a tax on people’s earnings
  14. 18. a type of warfare in which small, informal military groups use surprise attacks and hit-and-run tactics
  15. 21. the failed Confederate charge during the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg
  16. 24. an ironclad Union warship
  17. 26. a northerner who opposed using force to keep the southern states in the Union
  18. 29. a betrayal of or action against one's country
  19. 30. the first major battle of the Civil War; fought in Virginia in 1861; also called the Battle of Manassas
  20. 32. agreeing or accepting something without arguing about it
  21. 33. 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
  22. 34. having to do with the most important part of an idea or something
  23. 36. to be made up of
  24. 38. a place where guns are stored
  25. 40. a person who dies for his or her beliefs
  26. 41. a rise in prices and a decrease in the value of money
  27. 43. to withdraw from membership in a group