civil war vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. Blockade one of the most important strategies during the Civil War; designed to
  2. 5. of 1850 legislation passed by Congress in which California was admitted to the
  3. 9. Platform established Georgia's conditional acceptance of the Compromise of 1850; kept Georgia from succeeding from the Union
  4. 10. the South from shipping its cotton to England and France in return for weapons and other
  5. 11. of 1860 Abraham Lincoln elected President; outcome led to southern states to secede from the Union
  6. 14. the action of southern states to leave the Union
  7. 16. March to the Sea a destructive path of total war from Atlanta to Savannah
  8. 17. a legal idea that a state has the right to cancel; any federal law that the state has considered unconstitutional
  9. 19. in the western theater of the Civil War; failure to follow up on the victory lead to Sherman’s Atlanta campaign
Down
  1. 1. most notorious prisoner of war camp during the Civil War; officially named “Fort Sumter”
  2. 2. the period immediately after the Civil War when the South rebuilt and the
  3. 3. as a free state and a stronger Fugitive Slave Act was passed
  4. 6. Atlanta Campaign battles in and around Atlanta that led to Atlanta being completely
  5. 7. Rights the belief that a state’s interests should take priority over the interests of the national government
  6. 8. states returned to the Union
  7. 12. Scott case 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
  8. 13. battle that was the largest Union
  9. 15. Proclamation proclamation that said all slaves in the rebellious states would be freed on January 1, 1863
  10. 18. Bureau federal reconstruction agency; provided food; helped build schools and hospitals; created the first public school program for either African Americans or whites in