Unit 8 Civil War

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Across
  1. 7. - General of the Confederate army.
  2. 8. - the last failed Confederate charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
  3. 9. - Agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slave and free states equal.
  4. 12. - A term referring to the idea that each territory could decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery.
  5. 15. - An 1854 law that established the territories of Nebraska and Kansas, giving the settlers the right of popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery.
  6. 17. - Law that requires people of a certain age to enlist in the military.
  7. 18. - battle that the Confederate army defeated the Union army in three days, but the Confederate army lost one of it's best generals (Stonewall Jackson).
  8. 19. - Northerners who opposed using force to keep the South in the Union.
  9. 22. - Speech made by President Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg.
  10. 23. - Military blockade or bombardment of an enemy town or position in order to force it to surrender.
  11. 24. Run - battle that showed the Union and the Confederacy that their soldiers needed training. It also showed the Union that the Confederate army could stand up to the Union army.
  12. 25. - battle that General McClellan found General Lee’s battle plans, but was slow to act. This battle had no clear winner, but boosted northern morale after General Lee ordered his troops to withdraw.
Down
  1. 1. - To withdraw from membership in a group.
  2. 2. - All out war that affects civilians at home as well as soldiers in combat.
  3. 3. - Law passed in 1846 that banned slavery in any territories won by the United States from Mexico.
  4. 4. - An agreement that allowed California to enter as a free state, ended the slave trade in Washington D.C., and had a strict fugitive slave law.
  5. 5. - Law passed in 1850 that required all citizens to aid in the capture of runaway slaves.
  6. 6. - A slave state the remained in the Union during the Civil War.
  7. 10. - Lincoln’s 1863 declaration freeing slaves in the Confederacy.
  8. 11. - Political party established in the Unified States in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of the western territories.
  9. 13. - person who takes advantage of a crisis to make money.
  10. 14. Scottv.Sandford - An 1857 Supreme Court case that brought into question the federal power over slavery in the territories
  11. 16. - This battle was fought in the west by General Grant’s Union army. The Union army won, but it was one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War.
  12. 20. - A bloody three-day battle that ended in a Union victory. This marked a turning point in the war and the South never tried to invade the North again.
  13. 21. - Rule by the army instead of the elected government.