Across
- 6. making it easy for something to happen
- 8. An early announcement of their profit or loss for the year that listed companies are required to make under London Stock Exchange Regulations
- 9. a war between people of the same country
- 11. law in 1863
- 12. House small Virginia town
- 18. this speech exemplified Lincoln’s leadership at a time of grief and crisis
- 21. keep slavery out of the westen territories
- 22. Wagner near Charleston, South Carolina
- 26. the number of slave and free states equal
- 29. a person who dies for his or her beliefs
- 34. a general rise in prices and a decrease in the value of money
- 36. 1863 civil war battle in virginia; important victory for the Confederacy
- 39. tax on people’s earnings
- 40. the right of people to create their government
- 42. Americans who had fled slavery, be returned to their owners
- 45. a place where guns are stored
- 47. remove themselves
- 48. an ironclad Union warship
- 49. accepted African Americans from all across the North
- 50. 1862 civil war battle in virginia; one of the unions worst defeats
- 51. a political party established in the unites states in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of the western territories
- 52. something that comes before or is introductory to something
Down
- 1. Act replaced the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
- 2. a type of warfare in which small, informal military groups use surprise attacks and hit-and-run tactics
- 3. the right to be charged or have a hearing before being jailed
- 4. freed people enslaved in Confederate-held territory
- 5. the nation’s survival depended on the integrity of the Union
- 7. an 1854 law that establishes the territories of Nebraska and Kansas, giving the settlers of each territory the rights of popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery
- 10. states Kentucky, missouri, maryland, and Delaware
- 13. the willingness to accept laws whether or not a person agrees with those laws
- 14. named after the poisonous snake
- 15. to be made up of
- 16. an 1857 supreme court case that brought into question the federal power over slavery in the territories
- 17. an 1862 Civil War battle in Tennessee that ended in a Union victory
- 19. events of the Civil War
- 20. proslavery bans from missouri who often battled antislavery forces in Kansas
- 23. to solve
- 24. an ironclad warship used by the Confederates in an attempt to break the Union blockade
- 25. the first major battle of the civil war; fought in Virginia in 1861; also called the Battle of Manassas
- 27. a military force encircles an enemy position and blockades and bombards
- 28. to put out
- 30. to publicly state that some action or person is wrong or bad
- 31. a battle that lasted 3 days
- 32. they feared the draft would force them to fight against
- 33. lead 15,000 men in a daring charge against the center of the Union line
- 35. to prove something by being an example of it
- 37. of 1850 to agree
- 38. to keep in an existing state
- 41. an 1862 civil war battle in maryland; also called the battle of Sharpsburg
- 43. a betrayal of or action against one’s country
- 44. not eager to do something
- 46. one that could not be changed