Unit 4

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Across
  1. 1. Union army general that believed in total war
  2. 3. Georgia's response to the Compromise of 1850 which said that Georgia would agree to the compromise if the Fugitive Slave Act was included.
  3. 6. This event lasted 4 years and took place within the United States between the North and the South.
  4. 9. This Civil War battle was fought in northern Georgia, near Chattanooga, Tennessee
  5. 12. The action of cancelling or ignoring a federal law deemed unconstitutional by an individual state.
  6. 15. Sherman believed in this approach to war
  7. 17. This person took his owner to court to sue for his freedom. The case ruled that African Americans were not considered citizens and did not have rights.
  8. 20. Individuals that wanted to end slavery everywhere
  9. 27. This plan for reconstruction was much more harsh on the Confederate states and sent Union troops to the south to oversee reconstruction.
  10. 28. The southern states that seceded from the Union during the Civil War were called this
  11. 29. When the citizens of an individual state vote on the legalization of slavery (two words)
  12. 30. When union troops blocked the southeastern coastline, preventing southern states from importing or exporting goods
  13. 32. This act was included in the Compromise of 1850 and required any escaped enslaved person to be returned (3 words)
  14. 33. The northern and western states that remained united during the Civil War were called this
  15. 34. Series of battles that took place in Atlanta resulting in the destruction of the city and railroads under William Sherman
  16. 35. Winner of the Presidential election of 1860.
  17. 36. This amendment states that all people born or naturalized in the United States are considered citizens and have basic rights, regardless of color.
  18. 37. another word for taxes
  19. 38. This compromise brought California into the Union as a free state (three words)
  20. 39. Sherman and his troops' journey from Atlanta to Savannah
Down
  1. 2. This declaration from Abraham Lincoln freed slaves, but only in Confederate States
  2. 4. The south's economy was based on this.
  3. 5. Black men that served in Georgia's General Assembly until removed from office in 1876
  4. 7. When a change is made to the constitution it is called an
  5. 8. Terrorist group developed by Confederate veterans to support white supremacy
  6. 10. This group was created to assist newly freed people in establishing a new life.
  7. 11. This amendment ended slavery across the entire United States after the Civil War
  8. 13. Prison camp in Georgia that inhumanely held Union soldiers
  9. 14. Under this arrangement, laborers with no land of their own worked farm plots owned by others, but owned their own supplies and kept around 2/3 of their harvest.
  10. 16. This person became president after Lincoln's assassination.
  11. 18. governmental power reserved for individual states. Southern states intended to use this to allow slavery.
  12. 19. These states allowed slavery but did not secede from the Union: Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia
  13. 21. The plan to surround the seceded states and suffocate or squeeze them of supplies
  14. 22. To separate from
  15. 23. Another term for "total war" that involves burning to the ground
  16. 24. Under this arrangement, laborers with no land of their own worked on farm plots owned by others, and at the end of the season landowners paid workers a share of the crop.
  17. 25. These plans for reconstruction were considered too lenient or easy on the Confederate states
  18. 26. The the years immediately following the end of the Civil War are called
  19. 31. This amendment gave all men the right to vote.