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