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