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