Across
- 3. warfare in which small, informal militairy groups use suprise attacks and hit and run tactics
- 5. an 1862 battle in virginia, on of the union's worst defeats
- 6. the speech made by president lincoln in 1863 after the battle of gettysburg
- 9. having to do with the most important part of an idea or of something
- 10. unchangeable
- 12. to publicly say that something or someone is bad or wrong
- 14. the willingness to accept laws wheter or not a person agreed with those laws
- 15. an 1863 civil war battle in pennsylvania that ended in a union victory and stopped the confederate invasion of the north
- 20. the joined agreement stating that southern demands to the north to return fugitives from slavery would be met
- 21. an ironclad union warship
- 22. a virginia town that was the site of the confederate surrender in 1863
- 23. the first major battle of the civil war, fought in virginia in 1861
- 25. to surrond and blockade an enemy town or position with troops to force it to surrender
- 27. an 1862 civil war battle in tenesee that ended in a union victory
- 28. an 1862 civil war battle in maryland
- 29. African Americans who fled slavery
- 32. something that comes before or is introductory to something
- 33. to be made up of
- 35. making it easy for something to happen
- 37. the idea admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
- 39. a fort in south carolina that was the site of an attack by the african americans in confederate territory
- 41. an 1863 civil war battle in virginia, an important vitory for the confederacy
- 42. to suggest something without saying it directly or plainly
- 43. a northerner who opposed using force to keep the southern states in the union
- 45. an ironclad warship used by the confederates in an attempt to break the union
- 47. weapons and ammunition warehouse
- 48. a rise in prices and decrease in the value of money
- 49. the right to not be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime
- 50. someone willing to give their life for their beliefs
- 51. a war between people of the same country
Down
- 1. the failed confederate charge during the third day of the battle of gettysburg
- 2. to prove something by being an example of it
- 4. a statement that said that land be divided into two territories and the issue of slavery would be solved by popular sovereignty
- 7. to keep in an existing state
- 8. actions against one's country
- 11. remove
- 13. an african american unit in the army
- 16. the right of people to create their government
- 17. a law that required all citizens to help capture escapees and return them to slavery
- 18. slave states that stayed in the union
- 19. to suggest something for people to consider
- 24. a group formed by anti-slavery members of both parties
- 26. an 1863 declaration by president lincoln freeing enslaved african americans in confederate territory
- 30. pro slavery bands from missouri
- 31. a case about a man named dred scott that was a slave, but had moved to free territory where his owner had died
- 34. a group of free soilers, northern democrats, and anti-slavery Whigs
- 36. a tax on people's earnings
- 38. very important
- 40. not eager
- 44. a law that requires people of a certain age to enlist in the militairy
- 46. to find an answer or solution to something
