Across
- 3. Soil Party What political party did not want land gained in the Mexican America War to allow slavery.
- 5. The North and South realized the war was going to be a long hard struggle after the first Battle of _________________________.
- 10. False or misleading information that is spread to further a cause.
- 14. The admission of ___________________ to the Union led to the Compromise of 1850
- 16. A system of required military service
- 17. military term for a person that is killed, wounded, or missing in action.,
- 19. Midwest state that suffered widespread violence
- 20. Western counties of __________ refused to secede & later formed their own state.
- 22. What was the most important body of water to both sides during the war?
- 25. Outlawed slavery in the North and in the southern states that were rebelling. This did not do much as there was already no slavery in the north and the southern states did not listen.
- 28. A constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment.
- 29. The fall of what city forced General Lee to surrender to the Union?
- 30. To withdraw
- 31. The ___________ had better generals and a lifestyle that prepared them more for war.
- 32. The bloodiest battle of the Civil War that was fought in Pennsylvania. After this battle the Union had the upper hand.
Down
- 1. Rule in which the military is in charge & citizen's rights are suspended.
- 2. A military action to prevent traffic from coming into an area or leaving it.
- 4. A war between opposing groups of citizens from the same country.
- 6. What are these three things a result of -- Free Soil Party formed, Southerners became increasingly concerned that the North was trying to end slavery and Slavery in new territories was undecided was a result of ___________.
- 7. President Lincoln was assassinated at Fords Theatre by ______________________.
- 8. Name of the first permanent English settlement in American.
- 9. The ___________had more soldiers and more supplies to help fund their side of the war.
- 11. All out attacks aimed at destroying an enemy's army & peoples will to fight.
- 12. Legislation that provided for the admission of Maine to the United States as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state, thus maintaining the balance of power between North and South in the United States Senate.
- 13. tax on money that people receive.
- 15. general rise in prices.
- 18. that allowed people in these two territories to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
- 21. goal was to unite the _________________.
- 23. The five pillars of the __________________ are your freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition
- 24. Warships that were covered with iron plats; The Monitor and the Merrimack
- 26. Northern Democrats who opposed the war and wanted an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates.
- 27. An attempt to capture a place by surrounding it with military forces and cutting it off until the people inside surrender.
