Across
- 1. a fort in south carolina that was the site of an attack by the african american 54th massachusetts regiment in 1863
- 5. a war between people of the same country
- 10. a rise in prices and a decrease in the value of money
- 11. an 1862 civil war battle in virginia; important for the confederacy
- 12. the bipartisan antislavery party founded in the United States in 1848 to keep slavery out of the western territories
- 13. a tax on people’s earnings
- 14. proslavery bands from missouri who ofter battled anitislavery forces in kansas
- 15. an 1863 civil war battle in virgina; important victory for the confederacy
- 16. a northerner who opposed using force to keep the southern states in the union
- 18. an agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed
- 19. to be made fun of
- 24. an agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slave and free states equal
- 26. unable to be changed
- 28. something that comes before or is
- 32. having to do with the most important part of an idea or of something
- 35. to keep in an existing state
- 36. government by consent of the governent
- 37. making it easy for something to happen
- 40. not eager to do something
- 42. an 1862 civil war battle in tennessee that ended in a union victory
- 46. a slave state that remained in the union during the civil war
- 47. an 1863 declaration by presidant lincoln freeing enslaved african american in confederate territory
- 48. an 1863 Civil War battle in Pennsylvania that ended in a Union victory and stopped the confederate invasion of the north
- 49. the first major battle of the civil war; fought in virginia in 1861; also called the battle of manassas
- 50. an african american unit in the union army
- 51. to find an answer or solution to something
Down
- 2. a type of warfare in which small, informal mlitary groups, use suprise attacks and hit-and-run tactics
- 3. to withdraw from membership in a group
- 4. the right not to be held in prison whithout first being changed with a specific crime
- 6. an ironclad union warship
- 7. the speech made by president lincoln in 1863 after the Battle of Gettysburg
- 8. a political party established in the united states in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of the western territories
- 9. a law that requires people of a certain age to enlist in the military
- 17. to prove something by being an example of it
- 20. a person who dies for his or her beliefs
- 21. betrayal of or action against one’s country
- 22. very important
- 23. to suggest something for people to consider
- 25. an 1854 law that etablished the territories of nebraska and kansas, giving the settlers of each territory the right of popular sovereignty to decide on the tissue of slavery
- 27. to suggest something without saying it directly or plainly
- 29. a runaway
- 30. an ironclad warship used by the confederates in an attempt to break the union blockade
- 31. a Virginia town that was the site of the confederate surrender in 1865
- 33. - to surround and blockade an enemy town or position with troops in order to force it to surrender
- 34. an 1857 Supreme quart case that brought into question the federal power over slavery in the territories
- 38. an 1862 civil war battle in maryland; also called the battle of sharpsburg battle of fredericksburg - an 1862 civil war battle in virginia; one of the union’s worst defeats
- 39. one of two acts passed in 1793 and 1850 that provided for the capture and return of fugitive slaves
- 41. the failed confederate charge during the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg
- 43. agreeing or accepting something without arguing about it
- 44. a place where guns are stored
- 45. to publicaly state that some action or person is wrong or bad