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  1. 3. a city in Sumter County, Georgia, United States
  2. 7. naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading
  3. 8. a slave that fought for his freedom but was denied it
  4. 10. was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln
  5. 11. The Confederate army secured a decisive victory at Chickamauga but lost 20 percent of its force in battle
  6. 12. The rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
  7. 14. the constitutional theory that individual states can invalidate federal laws or judicial decisions they deem unconstitutional
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  1. 1. military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864
  2. 2. 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
  3. 4. represents the pinnacle of the state's political sovereignty. With periodic interruptions, the convention met in Milledgeville from January 16 to March 23, 1861,
  4. 5. the state of being a slave
  5. 6. Georgia's position on the compromise of 1850
  6. 9. The compromise admitted California to the United States as a “free” (no slavery) state but allowed some newly acquired territories to decide on slavery for themselves.
  7. 13. presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860