Unit 8 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. 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
  2. 5. people who take advantage of a crisis to make money
  3. 6. to withdraw from membership in a group
  4. 8. The Confederate army defeated the Union army in three days, but the Confederate army lost one of it's best generals (Stonewall Jackson)
  5. 9. failed confederate charge at the Battle of Gettysburg
  6. 17. passed in 1850 that required all citizens to aid in the capture of runaway slaves
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 21. An 1854 law that established the territories of Nebraska and Kansas, giving the settlers the right of popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery
  10. 23. an 1857 Supreme Court case that brought into question the federal power over slavery in the territories
  11. 24. law passed in 1846 that banned slavery in any territories won by the United States from Mexico
Down
  1. 2. General of the Confederate Army
  2. 3. slave states that remained in the Union during the Civil War
  3. 4. 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
  4. 7. speech made by President Lincoln in 1863 after the Battle of Gettysburg
  5. 10. An agreement that allowed California to enter as a free state, ended the slave trade in Washington D.C., and had a strict fugitive slave law
  6. 11. in the mid-1800s, a term referring to the idea that each territory could decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery
  7. 12. Lincoln's 1863 declaration freeing slaves in the Confederacy
  8. 13. agreement proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slave and free slave states equal
  9. 14. political party established in the United States in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of the western territories
  10. 15. rule by the army instead of the elected government
  11. 16. northerner who opposed using force to keep the southern states in the Union
  12. 18. law that requires people of a certain age to enlist in the military
  13. 19. military blockade of bombardment of an enemy town or position in order to force it to surrender
  14. 22. all-out war that affects civilians at home as well as soldiers in combat