Civil War Vocabulary

2. battle that was the largest Union defeat in the western theater of the Civil War; failure to follow up on the victory lead to Sherman’s Atlanta campaign
3. of the national government
5. battles in and around Atlanta that led to Atlanta being completely
7. a destructive path of total war from Atlanta to Savannah
8. one of the most important strategies during the Civil War; designed to prevent the South from shipping its cotton to England and France in return for weapons and other supplies
9. take priority over the
10. Missouri slave who sued for his freedom because he had lived in free territory; was denied the right to sue by the United States Supreme Court
15. the period immediately after the Civil War when the South rebuilt and the southern states returned to the Union
16. Abraham Lincoln elected President; outcome led to southern states to secede from the Union
17. established Georgia's conditional acceptance of the Compromise of 1850; kept Georgia from succeeding from the Union

1. federal reconstruction agency; provided food; helped build schools and hospitals; created the first public school program for either African Americans or whites in Georgia
4. proclamation that said all slaves in the rebellious states would be freed on January 1, 1863
6. the belief that a state’s interests
11. a legal idea that a state has the right to cancel; any federal law which that state has considered unconstitutional
12. legislation passed by Congress in which California was admitted to the Union as a free state and a stronger Fugitive Slave Act was passed
13. the action of southern states to leave the Union
14. most notorious prisoner of war camp during the Civil War; officially named “Fort Sumter”