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- 4. This group was created to assist newly freed people in establishing a new life.
- 8. This act was included in the Compromise of 1850 and required any escaped enslaved person to be returned (3 words)
- 10. This day celebrates the end of slavery in the United States.
- 12. These states allowed slavery but did not secede from the Union: Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia
- 13. Sherman and his troops' journey from Atlanta to Savannah
- 15. Individuals that wanted to end slavery everywhere
- 16. The plan to surround the seceded states and suffocate or squeeze them of supplies
- 17. Another term for "total war" that invloves burning to the ground
- 19. Winner of the Presidential election of 1860.
- 20. This amendment ended slavery across the entire United States after the Civil War
- 23. Union army general that believed in total war
- 25. This plan for reconstruction was much more harsh on the Confederate states and sent Union troops to the south to oversee reconstruction.
- 26. Sherman believed in this approach to war
- 28. When a change is made to the constitution it is called an
- 31. another word for taxes
- 33. Under this arrangement, laborers with no land of their own worked on farm plots owned by others, and at the end of the season landowners paid workers a share of the crop.
- 34. This event lasted 4 years and took place within the United States between the North and the South.
- 36. This person became president after Lincoln's assassination.
- 37. This compromise brought California into the Union as a free state (three words)
- 38. The northern and western states that remained united during the Civil War were called this
- 39. Series of battles that took place in Atlanta resulting in the destruction of the city and railroads under William Sherman
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- 1. These plans for reconstruction were considered too lenient or easy on the Confederate states
- 2. This amendment states that all people born or naturalized in the United States are considered citizens and have basic rights, regardless of color.
- 3. The south's economy was based on this.
- 5. The southern states that seceded from the Union during the Civil War were called this
- 6. When union troops blocked the southeastern coastline, preventing southern states from importing or exporting goods
- 7. The action of cancelling or ignoring a federal law deemed unconstitutional by an individual state.
- 9. governmental power reserved for individual states. Southern states intended to use this to allow slavery.
- 11. This declaration from Abraham Lincoln freed slaves, but only in Confederate States
- 14. Georgia's response to the Compromise of 1850 which said that Georgia would agree to the compromise if the Fugitive Slave Act was included.
- 18. This Civil War battle was fought in northern Georgia, near Chattanooga, Tennessee
- 21. Black men that served in Georgia's General Assembly until removed from office in 1876
- 22. This amendment gave all men the right to vote.
- 24. Under this arrangement, laborers with no land of their own worked farm plots owned by others, but owned their own supplies and kept around 2/3 of their harvest.
- 27. The the years immediately following the end of the Civil War are called
- 28. Prison camp in Georgia that inhumanely held Union soldiers
- 29. Terrorist group developed by Confederate veterans to support white supremacy
- 30. When the citizens of an individual state vote on the legalization of slavery (two words)
- 32. To separate from
- 35. This person took his owner to court to sue for his freedom. The case ruled that African Americans were not considered citizens and did not have rights.