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