Across
- 5. Supreme Court case in which the court denied a slave his freedom and the right to sue
- 6. Sherman's march from Atlanta to Savannah in which his troops destroyed everything in their path
- 7. Battles of the Civil War fought in western states
- 8. Institution in which African-Americans were owned like property
- 10. Order issued on January 1st, 1863; freed all Confederate slaves
- 12. Federal law that re-ignited the slavery debate by allowing popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery in previously free Kansas
- 14. Battle fought in northern Georgia; Confederates won and Union forces retreated to Tennessee
- 16. The idea that states should be allowed to settle most matters themselves
- 18. Prison in Georgia where many Union prisoners died from disease and starvation
- 19. 16th president elected in 1860
Down
- 1. Military general for the Confederacy
- 2. Stated that while Georgia supported the compromise, it would mot hesitate to resist any effort by congress to outlaw slavery in the new territories
- 3. Bloodiest battle of the Civil War
- 4. Compromise reached in 1820 that admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state
- 9. Ships that attempted to break through the Union blockade
- 11. General Sherman's campaign to take Atlanta because of its importance as a railroad hub
- 12. Battle in which southern troops tried to prevent Sherman from reaching Atlanta
- 13. Battles of the Civil War fought in eastern states
- 15. Bloodiest single day battle of the Civil War
- 17. Strategy in which Union ships lined the southern coast and did not let ships in or out