Topic 8 Vocabulary

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