H5- Civil War in Georgia

1. The Union's effort to prevent supplies from reaching Southern ports.
4. Georgia coastal city captured by Sherman in December 1864.
5. Major Southern cash crop closely connected to slavery and the prewar economy.
8. The act of a state formally leaving the United States.
10. Transportation systems that made Atlanta an important supply and military hub.
13. The group of Southern states that left the United States.
16. Strategy of destroying resources that could support the enemy's war effort.
17. The U.S. president during the Civil War.
19. The type of military campaign Sherman led from Atlanta to Savannah.

2. The act of freeing enslaved people.
3. Georgia town where a notorious Confederate prisoner-of-war camp was located.
6. Georgia's state capital when Georgia seceded in 1861.
7. A person in the South who opposed secession and supported remaining in the United States.
9. The system of forcing people to live and work as property.
11. Virginia location where Lee surrendered to Grant in April 1865.
12. The name for the United States during the Civil War.
14. The Union general who led the March to the Sea through Georgia.
15. Georgia city captured by Union forces in 1864.
18. Major Civil War battle fought in Georgia in 1863.