Civil War Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. period immediately after the civil war when South rebuilt and returned to the Union
  2. 5. Federal reconstruction agency; provided basic needs and created first public school program for either African Americans or whites in GA
  3. 7. the belief that a state’s interests should take priority over the interest of the national government
  4. 11. battle that was the largest Union defeat in the Western theater of the Civil war
  5. 13. legislation passed by Congress in which California was admitted to the Union as a free state and a stronger Fugitive Slave Act was passed
  6. 14. proclamation that said alas slaves in the rebellious states would be freed on Jan. 1, 1863
  7. 15. a legal idea that a stars has the right to cancel; any federal law which that state has concidered unconstitutional
Down
  1. 1. Missouri slave who sued for his freedom, but got denied by US Supreme Court
  2. 3. a destructive path of total war from ATL to Savannah
  3. 4. one of the most important strategies during Civil War; Made to prevent Southern States from shipping Cottons
  4. 6. established Georgia’s conditional acceptance of the Compromise of 1850
  5. 8. battles in and around Atlanta that lead destruction of the city
  6. 9. the action of Southern States to leave the Union
  7. 10. most notorious prisoner of war camp during the Civil War; officially named “Fort Sumter”
  8. 12. Abraham Lincoln got elected; led to the secede of Southern states from the Union