Civil War Vocabulary

3. federal reconstruction agency;provided food; helped build schools and hospitals; created the first public school program for either African Americans or whites in Georgia
7. the belief that a state’s interests should take priority over the interests of the national government
9. a legal idea that a state has the right to cancel; any federal law which that state has considered unconstitutional
11. the action of southern states to leave the Union
13. battles in and around Atlanta that led to Atlanta being completely destroyed
14. proclamation that said all slaves in the rebellious states would be freed on January 1, 1863
15. Abraham Lincoln elected President;outcome led to southern states to secede from the Union

1. most notorious prisoner of war camp during the Civil War; officially named “Fort Sumter”
2. a destructive path of total war from Atlanta to Savannah
4. the period immediately after the Civil War when the South rebuilt and the southern states returned to the Union
5. 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
6. established Georgia's conditional acceptance of the Compromise of 1850; kept Georgia from succeeding from the Union
8. Union strategy used to prevent the south from trading with Europe
10. site of largest union defeat in the western theater, failure to follow up victory led to Sherman's Atlanta campaign
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