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