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