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