Across
- 3. a political party established in the United States in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of the western territories
- 4. an agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed.
- 12. an 1863 declaration by President Lincoln freeing enslaved African Americans in Confederate territory.
- 18. A person who takes advantage of a crisis to make money.
- 20. General McClellan found General Lee’s battle plans, but was slow to act. This battle had no clear winner, but boosted northern morale after General Lee ordered his troops to withdraw.
- 21. a military blockade or encirclement of an enemy town or position with the purpose of forcing it to surrender.
- 22. a law passed in 1846 that banned slavery in any territories won by the United States from Mexico.
- 23. by the military instead of an elected government.
- 25. government by consent of the governed.
Down
- 1. a law that requires people of a certain age to perform military service.
- 2. 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.
- 5. a slave state that remained in the Union during the Civil War
- 6. the failed Confederate charge during the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
- 7. The Confederate army defeated the Union army in three days, but the Confederate army lost one of it's best generals (Stonewall Jackson).
- 8. Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) was a Virginian general who led the Confederate Army.
- 9. the speech made by President Lincoln in 1863 after the Battle of Gettysburg.
- 10. an all-out war that affects civilians at home as well as soldiers in combat.
- 11. an 1857 Supreme Court case that brought into question the federal power over slavery in the territories.
- 13. an agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slave and free states equal.
- 14. a law passed in 1850 that required all citizens to aid in the capture of runaway slaves.
- 15. a northerner who opposed using force to keep the southern states in the Union.
- 16. A bloody three-day battle that ended in a Union victory. This marked a turning point in the war and the South never tried to invade the North again.
- 17. to withdraw from membership in a group.
- 19. This battle was fought in the west by General Grant’s Union army. The Union army won, but it was one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War.
- 24. Showed the Union and the Confederacy that their soldiers needed training. It also showed the Union that the Confederate army could stand up to the Union army.