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