Vocab

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Across
  1. 1. infamous Civil War prisoner-of-war camp in Macon County, Georgia. Over 13,000 Union soldiers died in the camp due to disease and inhumane conditions
  2. 3. War – a war when the United States was divided and fought against itself; the North and South had differences in culture, economics, and opinions about the Constitution
  3. 4. Stephens (1812-1873) – Georgia politician who argued against secession, but went along with it anyway; he became Vice President of the Confederate States of America
  4. 5. Blockade the US Navy’s strategy to prevent the Confederacy from trading so they could not get supplies, weapons, ammunition and other materials; “blockade runners” slipped past the US ships to sneak to Great Britain to get goods
  5. 6. of 1860 – an election where Abraham Lincoln defeated John Breckenridge, John Bell, and Stephen Douglas to win the presidency; upon Lincoln’s election Southern states seceded from the Union
  6. 7. Proclamation Lincoln’s statement that all slaves in the rebellious states would be freed if the South did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863
  7. 9. Campaign the Union Army’s plan to capture Atlanta in the summer of 1864; Sherman’s army marched from Chattanooga, winning battles of Dalton, Resaca, Peachtree Creek, Ezra Church, and Atlanta. The Confederates won the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
  8. 12. Earth Policy all of the assets that are used or can be used by the enemy are targeted, such as food sources, transportation, communications, industrial resources, and even the people in the area
  9. 13. – a system of forced labor of African Americans; made worse by the South depending more on cotton as a cash crop, largely because of the invention of the cotton gin
  10. 14. of Chickamauga a three day battle in 1863 near the Tennessee border; it was a Confederate victory and the second bloodiest battle of the Civil War with 34,000 deaths; after the loss, the Union army retreated back to Chattanooga, Tennessee
Down
  1. 2. – separating from a nation and becoming independent; eleven southern states seceded and formed a confederation called the Confederate States of America (CSA)
  2. 3. States of America nation formed by the states which seceded from the Union, including Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia; Jefferson Davis was their President
  3. 8. to the Sea Union military campaign led by William T. Sherman from November 15 to December 25, 1864 marching from Atlanta to Savannah; Sherman used a “scorched earth” policy to end the South’s will to fight, destroying almost everything in his path
  4. 10. Campaign the Union Army’s plan to capture Atlanta in the summer of 1864; Sherman’s army marched from Chattanooga, winning battles of Dalton, Resaca, Peachtree Creek, Ezra Church, and Atlanta. The Confederates won the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
  5. 11. William T. Sherman (1820-1891)a Union Army leader known for "the March to the Sea;” he and his troops laid waste to Georgia as he tried to “make Georgia howl” and break their desire to keep fighting the war
  6. 15. Lincoln (1809 – 1865) – The 16th president of the United States, Lincoln preserved the Union during the Civil War and brought about the emancipation (or freedom) of enslaved people