Across
- 3. federal reconstruction agency;provided food; helped build schools and hospitals; created the first public school program for either African Americans or whites in Georgia
- 7. the belief that a state’s interests should take priority over the interests of the national government
- 9. a legal idea that a state has the right to cancel; any federal law which that state has considered unconstitutional
- 11. the action of southern states to leave the Union
- 13. battles in and around Atlanta that led to Atlanta being completely destroyed
- 14. proclamation that said all slaves in the rebellious states would be freed on January 1, 1863
- 15. Abraham Lincoln elected President;outcome led to southern states to secede from the Union
Down
- 1. most notorious prisoner of war camp during the Civil War; officially named “Fort Sumter”
- 2. a destructive path of total war from Atlanta to Savannah
- 4. the period immediately after the Civil War when the South rebuilt and the southern states returned to the Union
- 5. Missouri slave who sued for his freedom because he had lived in free territory; was denied the right to sue by the United States Supreme Court
- 6. established Georgia's conditional acceptance of the Compromise of 1850; kept Georgia from succeeding from the Union
- 8. Union strategy used to prevent the south from trading with Europe
- 10. site of largest union defeat in the western theater, failure to follow up victory led to Sherman's Atlanta campaign
- 12. legislation passed by Congress in which California was admitted to the Union as a free state and a stronger Fugitive Slave Act was passed