Unit 7 Test Review

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Across
  1. 1. Four candidtaes ran for president - Abraham Lincoln wins, which leads to the South seceeding.
  2. 2. the most important cause of the Civil War - the issue that divides the nation from its very beginning
  3. 4. this was also seen as a major cause of the Civil War - the South believed that states should have power to make own laws & that slavery is up to residents of state.
  4. 5. a series of battles fought in Georgia during the summer of 1864. It led to the burning and destruction of the South's most important city.
  5. 6. the only Confederate tried and executed after the war. He was the warden of Andersonville Prison.
  6. 9. when the South seceeded from the Union they formed this
  7. 10. when persons in a country or state split off and declare their independence from the ruling government
  8. 11. the Fugitive Slave Act was passed to stop the ________ __________from being so successful
  9. 13. Union leader that led
  10. 15. One reason farmers in the North were against slavery is because they couldn't compete with ____________
  11. 16. Georgia accepted the Compromise of 1850 as long as the North promised to stop threatening to end slavery.
  12. 18. After burning Atlanta, General Sherman marched his troops to Savannah, destroying railroads and destroying towns along the way. The SOuth was unable to recover afterwards and the war ended a few months later.
  13. 19. when two groups come together to negotiate an agreement
  14. 22. this city became vital to the war effort, and also became the center of Georgia's economy, since Georgia's port cities were impacted by the Union Blockade.
  15. 24. the nickname for the Union Blockade strategy
  16. 29. General Sherman's strategy of taking the war to the civilian population in order to end the war quicker.
  17. 34. his election directly led to the South seceeding from the Union
  18. 36. this law required Northerners to arrest and returnvany person they knew or suspected was a runaway slave.
  19. 39. the demand for slave labor dramatically increased due to this invention.
  20. 40. the election in this year was the final event that directly led to the Civil War.
  21. 41. a tax on imports/exports that the South refused to pay because they felt it discriminated against them
  22. 42. One of the reasons Atlanta became important during the war
Down
  1. 1. this document freed the slaves ONLY in the rebellious states - not the border states
  2. 3. the Georgia Platform was important because it helped _________ the secession of Southern states and the Civil War.
  3. 7. One of the reasons Atlanta became important during the war
  4. 8. the main reason Andersonville Prison was so terrible.
  5. 12. slave states that stayed with the Union during the Civil War. Lincoln had to make sure he kept them with the Union during the war so he let them keep slavery.
  6. 14. nation's #1 export during the 1800s
  7. 17. a series of battles
  8. 20. the South voted to _______ from the Unionm after the election of Abraham Lincoln.
  9. 21. Lincoln won the Election of 1860, but he did not win the majority (over 50%) of this vote
  10. 23. Union sodiers who were caught durning the war were sent here. It was overcrowded and the terrible living conditions led to many deaths.
  11. 25. the largest and bloodiest battle that took place in Georgia during the Civil War. It was a victory for the South.
  12. 26. this agreement led to the North adding California as a Free State and the South getting the FugitiveSlave Act in return.
  13. 27. since this Georgia city was directly impacted the Union Blockade during the war, Georgia's entire economy shifted to Atlanta.
  14. 28. a legal theory that a state has the right to ignore any federal laws which they deem unconstitutional
  15. 30. this event happened when states in the South refused to pay tariffs, nearly leading to a civil war in the 1830s
  16. 31. the Union's strategy of preventing supplies from reaching the South from Europe.
  17. 32. this state was admitted to the Union as a Free State according to the Compromise of 1850.
  18. 33. he sued for his freedom and lost. The decsion by the Supreme Court stated that African Americans were nothing more than property, were not citizens, and therefore couldn't sue in court.
  19. 35. to ignore a law or to make it void
  20. 37. nickname for the United States of America
  21. 38. a soldier who is captured during war