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Across
  1. 3. E. Lee an American and Confederate soldier, best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army
  2. 5. an infantry assault ordered by Confederate
  3. 7. a military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling the surrender of those inside
  4. 11. any of the slave states that bordered the northern free states during the US Civil War
  5. 15. of Antietam________________
  6. 16. of Gettysburg________________
  7. 17. a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
  8. 18. is part of the seven principles, that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people
  9. 20. 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.
  10. 22. a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, and one of the best-known speeches in American history
  11. 23. Law military government involving the suspension of ordinary law
  12. 25. law passed in 1846 that banned salvery in any territories won by the USA from Mexico
  13. 26. Act It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders
Down
  1. 1. Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party
  2. 2. a vocal faction of Democrats in the Northern United States of the Union who opposed the American Civil War and wanted an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates
  3. 4. Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. ... Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Law" for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves.
  4. 6. of Bull Run______________
  5. 8. compulsory recruitment for military service
  6. 9. 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.
  7. 10. Agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay
  8. 12. Scott v. Sandford a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law
  9. 13. withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization
  10. 14. Confederate army defeated the Union army in three days, but the Confederate army lost one of it's best generals (Stonewall Jackson).
  11. 18. A war profiteer is any person or organization that profits from warfare or by selling weapons and other goods to parties at war
  12. 19. 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.
  13. 21. the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished
  14. 24. a war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded
  15. 27. 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.