Civil War and Reconstruction

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  1. 3. Sherman targeted this population in order to defeat Georgia quickly
  2. 6. Sharecroppers _______ on the landowner for everything they needed.
  3. 7. 14th Amendment declares African Americans are ______ of the U.S.
  4. 8. This group of republicans believed the Presidential plans failed to punish the South
  5. 9. The Removal of Georgia's African American legislators happened mainly because white leaders wanted to limit the power and ______ of African Americans.
  6. 12. The Union Blockade _____ goods from coming or going out of the Confederacy
  7. 13. These issues brought up questions regarding the power of the federal and state governments
  8. 16. In this crisis South Carolina rejected the federal tariffs imposed in 1828 and 1890
  9. 21. The South's economy was based on __________.
  10. 23. This organization used intimidation and violence to suppress African American rights
  11. 24. ____________ over slavery occurred in 1820 and 1850
  12. 25. Another word for secession
  13. 28. Southerners _______ that as President, Lincoln would abolish slavery
  14. 31. The outcome of this case stated that he was not a citizen and therefore had no right to sue for freedom
  15. 33. The time period before the Civil War
  16. 35. The Emancipation Proclamation did not _____ end slavery.
  17. 36. Georgia secedes from the _______ after Lincoln is elected
  18. 37. This group argued states should have more power and that the federal should have less.
  19. 39. Lincoln and Johnson were responsible with these plans for Reconstruction
  20. 40. Sharecropping kept laborers in constant _____.
  21. 41. 13th Amendment ______ slavery
  22. 42. The U.S. Congress would not ______ Georgia since African Americans were removed from their elected offices.
  23. 43. The Civil War was caused by this specific states' rights issue
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  1. 1. This was an infamous Confederate POW camp during the Civil War
  2. 2. ______ Cotton Diplomacy was the southern war strategy
  3. 4. the 14th Amendment protect this specific group's rights
  4. 5. Lincoln and the ________ view of slavery was that it should not expand.
  5. 9. Georgia's economy began to _____ after the Civil War which is why textile mills increased throughout the state.
  6. 10. This occurred immediately after the Presidential Election of 1860
  7. 11. Lincoln and Johnson wanted to unite the country ______.
  8. 14. Georgia Textile mills _________ after the Civil War.
  9. 15. This battle in Georgia was the last major Confederate win!
  10. 17. The North's economy was based on ________.
  11. 18. ________ was the northern war strategy
  12. 19. Sharecroppers gave a certain percentage of their _____ to the landowner as payment for living on the land.
  13. 20. 15th Amendment protected African American right to ____
  14. 22. The Emancipation Proclamation paved the way for the 13th ______.
  15. 26. The Georgia _________ stated that Georgia would comply with the Compromise of 1850 as long as the Fugitive Slave Act was enforced
  16. 27. Tenant farmers _______ their own tools.
  17. 29. Congress wanted radical ______ changes in the South.
  18. 30. This city had more railroads and was more industrialized than any other Confederate state
  19. 32. The U.S. _______ disapproved of African American legislator expulsion in Georgia.
  20. 34. The U.S. Congress deemed Georgia _______ after the expulsion of Georgia's African American legislators.
  21. 38. The most success the Freedmen's Bureau had was in ______.