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- 2. States a slave state that remained in the Union during the Civil War
- 4. Charge the failed Confederate charge during the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg
- 11. of 1850 an agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed
- 12. 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.
- 13. to withdraw from membership in a group
- 15. Scott v. Sandford an 1857 Supreme Court case that brought into question the federal power over slavery in the territories
- 16. Proclamation:an 1863 declaration by President Lincoln freeing enslaved African Americans in Confederate territory
- 17. 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.
- 18. Waran all-out war that affects civilians at home as well as soldiers in combat
- 21. a person who takes advantage of a crisis to make money
- 24. law that requires people of a certain age to perform military service
- 25. Confederate army defeated the Union army in three days, but the Confederate army lost one of it's best generals (Stonewall Jackson).
- 26. 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.
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- 1. Proviso a law passed in 1846 that banned slavery in any territories won by the United States from Mexico
- 2. run
- 3. Party a political party established in the United States in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of the western territories
- 5. a northerner who opposed using force to keep the southern states in the Union
- 6. a military blockade or encirclement of an enemy town or position with the purpose of forcing it to surrende
- 7. 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.
- 8. E. Lee robert E. Lee (1807–1870) was a Virginian general who led the Confederate Army
- 9. Sovereigntygovernment by consent of the governed
- 10. Actan 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
- 14. Compromise an agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slave and free states equal
- 19. Law rule by the military instead of an elected government
- 20. Address the speech made by President Lincoln in 1863 after the Battle of Gettysburg
- 22. Slave Acta law passed in 1850 that required all citizens to aid in the capture of runaway slaves
- 23. the description write the battle that goes with it.