Across
- 5. the belief that the interest of states should be prioritized over the interest of the national government
- 9. missouri slave that sued for his freedom, but the decision of the case stated that slaves were second-class and did not have the privileges to sue for their freedom
- 11. one of the most important strategies during the Civil War; designed to prevent the South from shipping its cotton to England and France in return for weapons and other supplies
- 12. largest union defeat and sparked Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
- 14. when the southern states wanted independence from the union
- 15. kept Georgia from seceding from the union and expressed Georgia's support for the compromise of 1850
Down
- 1. a destructive path of war from Atlanta to Savannah
- 2. battles in and around Atlanta that led to Atlanta being destroyed
- 3. legislation passed that declared California as a free state, and a stronger fugitive slave act
- 4. the idea that states have the right to deny any federal law that they deem unconstitutional
- 6. federal reconstruction agency, created the first public school for african americans or whites in Georgia
- 7. the period after the civil war when the south had to rebuild and join back with the union
- 8. proclamation that freed all slaves
- 10. election that made Lincoln president, and sparked secession from the confederacy
- 13. notorious prisoner of war camp in the civil war, formerly known as fort sumter