Civil War

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  1. 2. the state of being a slave.
  2. 6. a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the final fourteen months of the American Civil War.
  3. 8. was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864
  4. 9. is a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify
  5. 11. the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
  6. 12. Election where lincoln was elected president
  7. 13. was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the Civil War
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  1. 1. was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864, by William Tecumseh Sherman, major general of the Union Army
  2. 3. was a naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading.
  3. 4. fought on September 19–20, 1863, between U.S. and Confederate forces in the American Civil War, marked the end of a Union offensive, the Chickamauga Campaign, in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia.
  4. 5. A slave sued for his freedom
  5. 7. admitted California to the United States as a “free” (no slavery) state but allowed some newly acquired territories to decide on slavery for themselves.
  6. 10. warned that the state would and should resist any future congressional activity disrupting the interstate slave trade, weakening the fugitive slave laws, or abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia.