Across
- 2. an agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay,to keep the number of slave and free states equal
- 4. a tax on people's earrings
- 7. an African American unit in the Union army
- 10. a betrayal of or action against one's country
- 12. president Lincoln's speech
- 15. important
- 16. a type of warfare in which small, informal military groups use surprise attacks and hit-and-runs tactics
- 17. to be made up of
- 22. a person who dies for his or hers beliefs
- 25. the bipartisan anti slavery party founded in the United States in 1848 to keep slavery out of the western territories
- 26. 15,000 men charged against the center of the union
- 27. government by the consent of the governed
- 28. having to do with the most important part of an idea or something
- 29. one of two acts passed in 1793 and 1850 that provided for the capture and return of fugitive slaves
- 32. a runaway
- 34. to prove something by being an example of it
- 35. the three day battle
- 37. to withdraw from membership in a group
- 38. an agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave state law was passed
- 40. an 1862 Civil War battle in Virginia; one of the Union's worst defeats
- 44. the willingness to accept laws whether or not a person agreed with those laws
- 45. Ruffians proslavery bands from Missouri who often battled antislavery forces in Kansas
- 46. a rise in prices but a decrease in the value of money
- 47. an 1862 Civil War battle in Maryland; also called Battle of Sharpsburg
- 48. one that could not be changed
- 49. a small Virginia town
Down
- 1. to keep in an existing state
- 3. a military force encircles an enemy position and blockades and bombards it in order to force it to surrender
- 5. an 1863 Civil War battle in Virginia; important victory for the confederacy
- 6. a place where guns are stored
- 8. an ironclad warship used by the Confederates in an attempt to break the Union blockade
- 9. an 1854 law that established the territories of Nebraska and Kansas, giving settlers of each territory the right of popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery
- 11. an 1862 Civil War battle in Tennessee that ended Union victory
- 13. Kentucky, Missouri,Maryland, and Delaware
- 14. a war between people of the same country
- 17. making it easy for something to happen
- 18. an ironclad Union warship
- 19. an 1863 declaration by President Lincoln freeing enslaved African Americans in Confederate territory
- 20. to publicly state that some action or person is wrong or bad
- 21. to suggest without saying directly or plainly
- 23. a northerner who opposed using force to keep the southern states in the Union
- 24. the right not to be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime
- 29. a fort in South Carolina that was the site of an attack by the African American 54th Massachusetts regulament in 1863
- 30. the first major battle of the civil war; fought in Virginia in 1861; also called the Battle of Manassas
- 31. an 1857 Supreme Court case that brought into question the federal power over slavery in the territories
- 33. a political party established in the United States in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of the western territories
- 36. to find an answer or solution to something
- 39. something that comes before or is introductory to something
- 41. not eager to do something
- 42. to suggest something for people to consider
- 43. a law that requires people of a certain age to enlist into the military