Across
- 1. - government by consent of the governed
- 8. - having to do with the most important part of an idea or of something
- 14. - northern who opposed using force to keep the southern states in the union
- 16. - a betrayal of or action against one's country
- 17. - the bipartisan antislavery party founded in the United States in 1848 to keep slavery out of the western territories
- 18. - a rise in prices and a decrease in the value of money
- 22. - a law that rewuired people of certian age to enlist in the military
- 23. - 1862 civil war battle in Virginia
- 24. - an 1863 declaration by president lincol freeing enslaved african american in confederate territory
- 26. - not eager to do something
- 28. - to withdraw from membership in a group
- 29. - an agreement over slavery by which California joined the union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed
- 30. - to publicly state that some action of a person is wrong or bad
- 31. - a runaway
- 32. - the right no to be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime
- 33. - one of the two acts passed in 1793 and 1850 that provided for the capture and return of fugitive slaves
- 35. - to find an answer or solution to something
- 36. - to keep in an existing state
- 39. - a person who dies for his or her beliefs
- 40. - to be made up of
- 43. - a place where guns are stored
- 44. - a war between people of the same country
- 45. - making it easy for something to happen
- 46. - an 1857 supreme court case that brought into question the federal power over slavery in the territories
- 47. - to prove something by being an exsample of it
Down
- 1. - to suggest something for people to consider
- 2. - the speech made the president lincoln in 1863 after the battle of gettysburg
- 3. - one that could not be changed
- 4. - something that comes before or is introductory
- 5. - an 1863 civil war battle in pennsylvania that ended in a union victory and stopped the conderate invasion of the north
- 6. - the first major battle of the Civil War; fought in Virginia in 1861; also called the Battle of Manassas
- 7. - the failed conderate charge during the third day of battle of gettysburg
- 9. - a type of warfare in which small, informal military groups use surprise attacks and hit-and-run tactics
- 10. - an agreement proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slave and free states equal
- 11. - 1862 civil war battle in Tennessee that ended in a union victory
- 12. - a virginia town that was the site of the conferate surrender in 1865
- 13. - to suggest without saying directly or plainly
- 15. - an 1854 law that establishes the territory of Nebraska and Kansas, giving the settlers of each territory the rights of popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery
- 19. - an african american unit in the union army
- 20. - 1863 civil war battle in virginia; important victory for the conderacy
- 21. - very important
- 25. - proslavery bans from Missouri who often battled antislavery forces in Kansas
- 27. - a military force encircles an enemy position and blockades and bombards
- 34. - a political party established in the United States in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of the western territories
- 36. - an ironclad Union warship
- 37. - a tax on peoples earnings
- 38. - the willingness to accept laws whether or not a person agrees with those laws
- 41. - Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware
- 42. - an ironclad warship used by the confederates in an attempt to break the union's blockade