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