Across
- 1. very important
- 3. an agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed
- 9. warfare in which small, informal militry groups use surprise attacka and hit-and-run tactics
- 12. having to do with the most important part of an idea or of something
- 14. the right not to be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime
- 15. remove themselves
- 16. an 1862 Civil War battle in Tennessee that ended in a Union victory
- 19. african americans who had fled slavery
- 20. Court House a Virginia town that was the site of the Confederate surrender in 1865
- 21. a law that requires people of a certain age to enlist in the military
- 23. to suggest something for people to consider
- 25. an 1862 Civil War battle in Maryland; also called the Battle of Sharpsburg
- 26. an ironclad warship used by the Confederates in an attempt to break the Union blockade
- 30. actions against one’s country
- 31. a fort in South Carolina that was the site of an attack by the African American 54th Massachusetts Regiment in 1863
- 33. to surround and blockade an enemy town or position with troops in order to force it to surrender
- 35. to prove something by being an example of it
- 36. a settlement or peaceful solution in which each side gives up some of its demands in order to reach an agreement or peaceful solution
- 40. a northerner who opposed using force to keep the southern states in the Union
- 41. the first major battle of the Civil War; fought in Virginia in 1861; also called the Battle of Manassas
- 42. required all citizens to help catch african americans trying to escape slavery
- 43. A party whose main goal was to keep slavery from spreading to western territories
- 47. to find an answer or solution to something
- 48. agreeing or accepting something without arguing about it
- 49. an agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep number of slave and free states equal
- 50. to publicly say that someone or something is wrong or bad
- 51. An act where Senator Stephen Douglas proposed that a large region be divided into two sections so that the people of the areas could decide whether or not to abolish slavery in the area.
Down
- 2. a rise in prices and a decrease in the value of money
- 4. an African American unit in the Union army
- 5. - party full of antislavery activists
- 6. tax a tax on people's earnings
- 7. an 1862 Civil War battle in Virginia; one of the Union's worst defeats
- 8. weapons or ammunition warehouse
- 10. ScottvSandford Dred Scott, a free man, filed a lawsuit in order to prove himself a free man but the lawsuit was rejected since he was a slave and not a citizen
- 11. an 1863 declaration by President Lincoln freeing enslaved African Americans in Confederate territory
- 13. state a slave state that remained in the Union during the Civil War
- 17. to suggest something without saying it directly or plainly
- 18. an 1863 Civil War battle in Virginia; important victory for the Confederacy
- 22. something that comes before or is introductory to something
- 24. making it easy for something to happen
- 27. to keep in an existing state
- 28. the speech made by President Lincoln in 1863 after the Battle of Gettysburg
- 29. unable to be changed
- 32. an 1863 Civil War battle in Pennsylvania that ended in a Union victory and stopped the Confederate invasion of the North
- 34. government by consent of the governed
- 37. the failed Confederate charge during the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg
- 38. a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs.
- 39. Proslavery bands from Missouri that often rode across the border
- 44. a war between people of the same country
- 45. not eager to do something
- 46. an ironclad Union warship