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- 2. political powers held for the state governments rather than the federal government
- 3. was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia
- 7. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
- 9. the Georgia General Assembly debated whether the state should join its fellow southern states in breaking away from the union
- 12. was a naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading.
- 13. a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp
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- 1. In its 1857 decision that stunned the nation, the United States Supreme Court upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.
- 4. called for the admission of California as a "free state," provided for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico, established a boundary between Texas and the United States, called for the abolition of slave trade in Washington, DC, and amended the Fugitive Slave Act.
- 5. marked the end of a Union offensive, the Chickamauga Campaign, in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia.
- 6. affirmed the acceptance of the Compromise as a final resolution of the sectional slavery issues while declaring that no further assaults on Southern rights by the North would be acceptable
- 8. was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area
- 10. United States presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860.
- 11. the practice of owning slaves