Unit 8 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. -any of the slave states that bordered the northern free states during the US Civil War
  2. 4. - an agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed
  3. 8. - a northerner who opposed using force to keep the southern states in the Union
  4. 10. - a law passed in 1850 that required all citizens to aid in the capture of runaway slaves
  5. 11. - an 1863 declaration by President Lincoln freeing enslaved African Americans in Confederate territory
  6. 12. - the speech made by President Lincoln in 1863 after the Battle of Gettysburg
  7. 14. - a law passed in 1846 that banned slavery in any territories won by the United States from Mexico
  8. 16. - rule by the military instead of an elected government
  9. 17. - a Virginian general who led the Confederate Army.
  10. 18. - a law that requires people of a certain age to perform military service
  11. 19. - a military blockade or encirclement of an enemy town or position with the purpose of forcing it to surrender
  12. 20. - to withdraw from membership in a group
Down
  1. 1. - a political party established in the United States in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of the wester n territories
  2. 3. - an 1857 Supreme Court case that brought into question the federal power over slavery in the territories
  3. 5. - 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
  4. 6. - government by consent of the governed
  5. 7. - an agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slave and free states equal
  6. 9. - the failed Confederate charge during the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg
  7. 13. - an all-out war that affects civilians at home as well as soldiers in combat
  8. 15. - a person who takes advantage of a crisis to make money