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- 4. A war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded.
- 5. Infantry attack ordered by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee against Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's Union positions.
- 9. The U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that African Americans
- 10. A military operation
- 12. An executive order issued on January 1, 1863, by President Lincoln freeing slaves in all portions of the United States not then under Union control
- 14. Proposal brought forward by Pennsylvania Congressman David Wilmot that stipulated that none of the Mexican Cession territory would be allowed to permit slavery.
- 15. GPO
- 16. A law passed by Congress in 1854 that divided the territory west of the states of Missouri and Iowa and the territory of Minnesota into two new territories
- 18. A law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states.
- 19. To make
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- 1. A settlement of a dispute between slave and free states, contained in several laws passed during 1820 and 1821
- 2. Military government involving the suspension of ordinary law.
- 3. Remove
- 6. Vocal faction of Democrats in the Northern United States of the Union who opposed the American Civil War
- 7. A set of laws, passed in the midst of fierce wrangling between groups
- 8. A system for selecting young men for compulsory military service, administered in the United States by the Selective Service System.
- 11. Any of the slave states that bordered the northern free states during the US Civil War
- 13. The doctrine that sovereign power is vested in the people and that those chosen to govern, as trustees of such power, must exercise it in conformity with the general will
- 17. A general of the nineteenth century