Across
- 5. a tax on people’s earnings
- 8. a notherner who opposed using force to keep southern states in the Union
- 9. an agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed
- 11. to withdraw from membership in a group
- 12. unable to be changed
- 16. an 1862 Civil War battle in Virginia; one of the Union’s worst defeats
- 21. one of two acts passed in 1793 and 1850 that provided for the capture and return of fugitive slaves
- 22. 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
- 24. an 1862 Cival War battle in Maryland; also called the Battle of Sharpsburg
- 27. to suggest something for people to consider.
- 28. proslavery bands from Missouri who often battled antislavery forces in Kansas
- 29. Proclamation: an 1863 declaration by President Lincoln freeing enslaved African Americans in Confederate territory
- 30. a betrayal of or action against one’s country
- 31. something that comes before or is introductory to something
- 35. an African American unit in the Union Army
- 38. the first major battle of the Civil War; fought in Virginia in 1861; also called Battle of Manassas
- 42. to suggest something without saying it directly or plainly
- 44. to find an answer or solution to something
- 45. an 1863 Civil War battle in Virginia; important victory for the Confederacy
- 46. a fort in South Carolina that was the site of an attack by the African Americans 54th Massachusetts Regiment in 1863
- 47. the speech made by President Licncoln in 1863 after the Battle of Gettysburg
- 48. a political party established in the United States in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of western territories
Down
- 1. to prove something by being an example of it
- 2. a Virginia town that was the site of the Confederate surrender in 1865
- 3. not eager to do something
- 4. an 1857 Supreme Court case that brought into question the federal power over slavery in the territories
- 5. a rise in prices and a decrease in the value of money
- 6. to be made up of
- 7. government by constant of the government
- 10. an ironclad warship used by the Confederates in an attempt to break the Union blockade
- 13. the failed Confederate charge during the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg
- 14. a place where guns are stored
- 15. an 1863 Civil War battle in Pennsylvannia that ended in a Union victory and stopepd the Confederate invasion of the North
- 17. having to do with the most important part of an idea or something
- 18. to publicily state that some action or person is wrong or bad
- 19. a person who dies for his or her beliefs
- 20. very important
- 23. to keep in an existing state1.
- 25. a war between people of the same country
- 26. making it easy for something to happen
- 29. a law that requires people of a certain age to enlist in the military
- 32. agreeing or accepting something without arguing about it
- 33. to surround and blockade an enemy town or position with troops in order to force it to surrender
- 34. an 1862 Civil War battle in Tennessee that ended in a Union victory
- 36. the bipartisan antislavery party founded in the United States in 1848 to keep slaves out of the western territories
- 37. a type of warfare in which small, infromal military groups use suprise attacks and hit-and-run tactics
- 38. a runaway
- 39. a slave state that remained in the Union during the Civil War
- 40. an agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slave and free states equal
- 41. the right not to be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime
- 43. an ironclad Union warship