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- 1. Union army general that believed in total war
- 3. Georgia's response to the Compromise of 1850 which said that Georgia would agree to the compromise if the Fugitive Slave Act was included.
- 6. This event lasted 4 years and took place within the United States between the North and the South.
- 9. This Civil War battle was fought in northern Georgia, near Chattanooga, Tennessee
- 12. The action of cancelling or ignoring a federal law deemed unconstitutional by an individual state.
- 15. Sherman believed in this approach to war
- 17. 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.
- 20. Individuals that wanted to end slavery everywhere
- 27. This plan for reconstruction was much more harsh on the Confederate states and sent Union troops to the south to oversee reconstruction.
- 28. The southern states that seceded from the Union during the Civil War were called this
- 29. When the citizens of an individual state vote on the legalization of slavery (two words)
- 30. When union troops blocked the southeastern coastline, preventing southern states from importing or exporting goods
- 32. This act was included in the Compromise of 1850 and required any escaped enslaved person to be returned (3 words)
- 33. The northern and western states that remained united during the Civil War were called this
- 34. Series of battles that took place in Atlanta resulting in the destruction of the city and railroads under William Sherman
- 35. Winner of the Presidential election of 1860.
- 36. This amendment states that all people born or naturalized in the United States are considered citizens and have basic rights, regardless of color.
- 37. another word for taxes
- 38. This compromise brought California into the Union as a free state (three words)
- 39. Sherman and his troops' journey from Atlanta to Savannah
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- 2. This declaration from Abraham Lincoln freed slaves, but only in Confederate States
- 4. The south's economy was based on this.
- 5. Black men that served in Georgia's General Assembly until removed from office in 1876
- 7. When a change is made to the constitution it is called an
- 8. Terrorist group developed by Confederate veterans to support white supremacy
- 10. This group was created to assist newly freed people in establishing a new life.
- 11. This amendment ended slavery across the entire United States after the Civil War
- 13. Prison camp in Georgia that inhumanely held Union soldiers
- 14. 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.
- 16. This person became president after Lincoln's assassination.
- 18. governmental power reserved for individual states. Southern states intended to use this to allow slavery.
- 19. These states allowed slavery but did not secede from the Union: Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia
- 21. The plan to surround the seceded states and suffocate or squeeze them of supplies
- 22. To separate from
- 23. Another term for "total war" that involves burning to the ground
- 24. 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.
- 25. These plans for reconstruction were considered too lenient or easy on the Confederate states
- 26. The the years immediately following the end of the Civil War are called
- 31. This amendment gave all men the right to vote.