Across
- 3. a war between opposing groups of citizens from the same country
- 4. to meet, especially in a challenge
- 6. the right of an accused person to appear in court so a judge can determine whether he or she is being imprisoned lawfully
- 8. something that increases strength with additional support
- 9. an agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a state with slavery and Maine was admitted as a state without slavery
- 11. the United States as one nation united under a single government. During the Civil War, “the Union” came to mean the government and armies of the North.
- 12. a Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
Down
- 1. a group of people within a larger group who have different ideas from the main group
- 2. a proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War
- 5. continuing forever
- 7. a person who flees or tries to escape (for example, from slavery)
- 10. another name for the Confederate States of America, made up of the 11 states that seceded from the Union