Across
- 4. Blockade one of the most important strategies during the Civil War; designed to
- 5. of 1850 legislation passed by Congress in which California was admitted to the
- 9. Platform established Georgia's conditional acceptance of the Compromise of 1850; kept Georgia from succeeding from the Union
- 10. the South from shipping its cotton to England and France in return for weapons and other
- 11. of 1860 Abraham Lincoln elected President; outcome led to southern states to secede from the Union
- 14. the action of southern states to leave the Union
- 16. March to the Sea a destructive path of total war from Atlanta to Savannah
- 17. a legal idea that a state has the right to cancel; any federal law that the state has considered unconstitutional
- 19. in the western theater of the Civil War; failure to follow up on the victory lead to Sherman’s Atlanta campaign
Down
- 1. most notorious prisoner of war camp during the Civil War; officially named “Fort Sumter”
- 2. the period immediately after the Civil War when the South rebuilt and the
- 3. as a free state and a stronger Fugitive Slave Act was passed
- 6. Atlanta Campaign battles in and around Atlanta that led to Atlanta being completely
- 7. Rights the belief that a state’s interests should take priority over the interests of the national government
- 8. states returned to the Union
- 12. Scott case 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
- 13. battle that was the largest Union
- 15. Proclamation proclamation that said all slaves in the rebellious states would be freed on January 1, 1863
- 18. Bureau federal reconstruction agency; provided food; helped build schools and hospitals; created the first public school program for either African Americans or whites in