Across
- 2. the failed Confederate charge during the third day of the battle of Gettysburg
- 3. a Virginia town that was the site of Confederate soldiers
- 5. the government by consent of the governed
- 9. proslavery bands from Missouri who often battled antislavery forces in Kansas
- 14. an 1854 law that established the territories of Nebraska and Kansas giving the settlers of each the right for popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery
- 15. an 1862 civil war battle in Virginia: was one of the Union's worst defeats
- 16. to withdraw membership in a group
- 17. an 1862 civil war battle in Tennesse that ended in a Union victory
- 19. a fort in south carolina that was the site of an attack by the african americans 54th Massachusetts regiment in 1863
- 22. a tax on people's earnings
- 28. a place where guns are stored
- 29. a war between people of the same country
- 31. the bipartisan anit slavery party founded in the united states in 1848 to keep slavery out of the Westen territories
- 32. the right not to be help in prison without first being charged with a specific crime
- 33. one of the two acts passed in 1793 and 1850 that provided the computer and return of fugitive slaves
- 35. very important
- 37. to suggest without saying it directly
- 38. a law that requires people of certain age to enlist in the military
- 39. the unions own ironclad
- 40. a northerner who opposes using force to keep the southern states in the union
- 42. to find an answer or solution to something
- 43. agreeing or accepting something without arguing about it
- 45. in 1863 civil war battle in Pennsylvania ended in a union victory and stopped the Confederate invasion of the North
- 46. a rise in prices and a decrease in value of money
- 47. an 1863 declaration by president lincoln freeing enslaved African Americans in Confederate territory
- 48. 1857 supreme court case that brought into question the federal power over slavery in certain territories
- 49. an 1862 civil war battle in Maryland; also called the Battle of Sharpsburg
- 50. unable to be changed
Down
- 1. an 1862 civil war battle in Virginia was an important victory for the Confederacy
- 4. to be made up of
- 5. to suggest something for people to consider
- 6. confederates modified an abandon union war ship and renamed it
- 7. an agreement proposed by Henry to keep the number of slave states and free states equal
- 8. a political party established in the united states in 184 with the goal of keeping slavery out of western territories
- 10. a betrayal of an action against one's country
- 11. a public state that some action or person is wrong or bad
- 12. the battle of manassa when the confedrate shows how badly both the union and the confedcy need more milarty training
- 13. to surround or blockade an enemy town or to position troops to force to surrender
- 18. a person who dies for his or her beliefs
- 20. an agreement over slavery in which California joined the union as a free state and a strict fugitive law was passed
- 21. african american unit in the union army
- 23. having to do with the most important part of an idea or of something
- 24. a slave state that remained in the union after the civil war
- 25. a runaway convicted of a crime
- 26. a type of warfare in small, informal military groups use surprise attacks and hit-and-run tactics
- 27. something that comes before or is introduction of something
- 30. not eager to do something
- 34. to keep in an existing state
- 36. speech made by president lincoln in 1863 after the battle of Gettysburg
- 41. to prove something by being an example of it
- 44. making it easy for something to happen