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