Georgia and the Civil War

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Across
  1. 1. The main industry in the South before the Civil War, especially in Georgia.
  2. 3. To make something unable to function; what Sherman’s campaign aimed to do to Georgia’s war efforts.
  3. 5. The Northern states that remained part of the United States during the Civil War.
  4. 8. President of the United States during the Civil War; issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
  5. 10. The name of Sherman’s path of destruction from Atlanta to Savannah.
  6. 12. The act of a state formally leaving the Union
  7. 14. The system where people were forced to work without pay or freedom; a key issue in the Civil War.
  8. 17. A major Civil War battle in Georgia that helped Lincoln win re-election.
  9. 18. The period after the Civil War when the South was rebuilt and rejoined the Union.
  10. 19. The belief that states had more power than the federal government; often used to defend slavery.
  11. 20. An agreement that tried to balance free and slave states before the Civil War.
Down
  1. 2. The act of freeing enslaved people
  2. 4. A law that allowed states to vote on whether to allow slavery, leading to violence.
  3. 6. The group of Southern states that broke away from the United States during the Civil War.
  4. 7. The conflict between the Union and Confederacy from 1861 to 1865.
  5. 9. A Supreme Court case that ruled African Americans were not citizens.
  6. 11. The President of the Confederate States of America.
  7. 13. The Union general who led a destructive march through Georgia.
  8. 15. The cash crop that drove Georgia’s economy and increased the demand for slavery.
  9. 16. A war strategy where ports are blocked to stop supplies from entering or leaving.