UNIT 5: GEORGIA IN THE CIVIL WAR

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Across
  1. 2. The Compromise of 1850 also included the Fugitive Slave Act. It punished those who helped runaway slaves, and demanded that slaves be returned to the South
  2. 3. Civil War prisoner-of-war camp in Macon County, GA. Over 9,000 Union soldiers died in the camp.
  3. 5. The withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War.
  4. 8. What was the term used to describe Sherman's warfare tactics against Georgia's civilian population?
  5. 9. Henry Clay worked out a compromise, California joined the Union as a free state, Fugitive Slave Law Passed
  6. 11. Confederate victory; largest battle fought in Georgia; led to the battle of Chattanooga.
  7. 12. Union military campaign led by William T. Sherman in 1864 and attacked Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah; used a "scorched earth" policy to end civilian support in the South & ultimately end the war.
Down
  1. 1. Northern strategy against the South to block the coast and prevent trading with European countries in an attempt to hurt the Southern economy.
  2. 4. the act of making legally null and void
  3. 6. One of the leading causes of the Civil War. The North wanted to abolish slavery but the South was against the abolition of slavery.
  4. 7. Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not citizens of the United States (and therefore, could not sue in court.)
  5. 10. Abraham Lincoln won the election and was voted president