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- 2. the state of being a slave.
- 6. a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the final fourteen months of the American Civil War.
- 8. was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864
- 9. is a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify
- 11. the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
- 12. Election where lincoln was elected president
- 13. was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the Civil War
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- 1. was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864, by William Tecumseh Sherman, major general of the Union Army
- 3. was a naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading.
- 4. fought on September 19–20, 1863, between U.S. and Confederate forces in the American Civil War, marked the end of a Union offensive, the Chickamauga Campaign, in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia.
- 5. A slave sued for his freedom
- 7. admitted California to the United States as a “free” (no slavery) state but allowed some newly acquired territories to decide on slavery for themselves.
- 10. warned that the state would and should resist any future congressional activity disrupting the interstate slave trade, weakening the fugitive slave laws, or abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia.
