Across
- 2. legislation passed by Congress in which California was admitted to the union as a free state and a stronger fugitive Slave Act was passed
- 5. 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
- 8. proclamation that said all slaves in the rebellious states would be freed on January 1, 1863
- 10. battle that was the largest Union defeat in the western theater of the Civil War; failure to follow up on the victory lead to Sherman’s Atlanta campaign
- 11. 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
- 12. Abraham Lincoln elected President; outcome led to southern states to secede from the Union
- 14. a destructive path of total war from Atlanta to Savannah
Down
- 1. battles in and around Atlanta that led to Atlanta being completely destroyed secession the action of southern states to leave the Union
- 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
- 4. the belief that a state’s interests should take priority over the interests of the national government
- 6. a legal idea that a state has the right to cancel; any federal law which that state has considered unconstitutional
- 7. the period immediately after the Civil War when the South rebuilt and the southern states returned to the Union
- 9. most notorious prisoner of war camp during the Civil War; officially named “Fort Sumter”
- 13. established Georgia's conditional acceptance of the Compromise of 1850; kept Georgia from succeeding from the union