Unit 7 - Crossword Puzzle

2. A series of battles in an effort for the union to capture Atlanta due to it being an industrial hub full of railroads.
5. A convention that helped assemble southern acceptance of the compromise of 1850. Prevented secession for another 10 years, but increased southern sectionalism.
7. Lincoln won and vowed to limit the spread of slavery while also keeping the union intact. The south was skeptical of Lincoln and feared he would soon get rid of slavery all together
10. Supreme court ruling that blacks are not citizens.
13. A method used by Sherman during the march to the sea to ensure total destruction.
15. The general in charge of leading the Atlanta campaign and March to the sea.
16. A ruling that changed the focus of the civil war from secession to slavery.
17. A prison popular for keeping union soldiers in its terrible conditions. Many prisoners died here due to the harsh conditions like starvings

1. This was the name of the plan the Union put in place to “choke off” the Confederate states.
3. This was the name the Southern states were known as
4. The cause of this major event was states believing they had more authority than the federal government.
6. The man in charge of Andersonville Prison who was later on executed.
8. war Tension was rising between the north and the south and disagreements sparked on the subject of state’s rights, but later on became a disagreement over slavery where the south threatened to secede.
9. A confederate victory, Ga successfully stopped the invasion of the union. Slowed down the destruction of Georgia's railroads.
11. Slave trade banned in Washington D.C, Texas enters as a slave state and gives up control of New Mexico and Utah, California comes in as a free state, Utah and Mexico granted popular sovereignty, stronger Fugitive Slave Act.
12. This was the name the Northern states were known as
14. What the states threatened to do. The act of separating from something bigger (like a country.)