Vocab
What is a tax placed on imported goods?
Tariff
North cuts of southern supply lines and reinforcements and spilts the Confederacy in half by gaining control of the Mississippi.
Union Blockade or Anaconda Plan
What was the bloodest single day battle in American history?
Battle of Antietam
Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation and under what authority did he or she issue it?
Abraham Lincon and he issued when he was President of the US.
What do you call when you make something invalid or illegal?
Nullify
South uses a denfensive war strategy by making allies with Great Britian and France and in that process tries forcing them pressure the North to end the blockade by controlling cotton trade.
King Cotton Diplomacy
What was the Bloodest Battle in American history and was a turning point for the Union?
Battle of Gettysburg
What famous short speech did Abraham Lincoln give to a crowd that was gathered at a cemetery located in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania? It was also considered to be one of the most inspiring speeches in American history.
Gettysburg Address
What is the idea called when people believe that they have their own government authority and they should have their own government authority?
Popular Sovereignty
What battle officially started the Civil War and caused 4 more states to secede from the Union?
Battle of Fort Sumter
What city in Southwest Georgia housed a prison for captured Union soldiers which had horrible living conditions for them? This city is also now home to the National Prisoner of War Museum.
Andersonville
What is the practice of a wealthy landowner renting land to a formerly enslaved person in exchange for a share of the harvest?
Tenant Farming
What battle was fought seven miles south out of Chattanooga, Tennessee and from September 18, 1863 until September 20, 1863 and in that process, forced Union troops to retreat back to Chattanooga and delay the invainsion of Georgia?
Battle of Chickamauga
Sherman lead this 285 mile march with 60,000 Union soliders from November 16 til December 21, 1863 and from Atlanta to Savannah and left a 60 mile path of destruction. The purpose of this march was to destroy the Southern civilans morale to countine the civil war in hopes that they would surrender to the Union even though it was brutal.
Sherman's March to the Sea.
What is the pratice of a wealthy landowner renting land, animals, equipment and supplies to a formerly enslaved person in exchange for a large share of harvest?
Sharecropping
This event begin in early May of 1864 and was lead by Union General Willam T. Sherman and other Union troops and they went from Chattanooga to Atlanta to capture Atlanta, destroy the Tennessee's Army and cut off Confederate supply lines.
Sherman's Atlanta Campaign