Key Locations
The first capital of Georgia
The current capital of Georgia
What is Savannah, GA?
What is Atlanta, GA?
Union
What was also known as the North and the United States of America that believed in the containment of slavery?
Abolitionist
What is the movement to end slavery?
Sherman's March to the Sea
What was a movement of the Union army troops from Atlanta, Georgia, to the Georgia seacoast, with the objective of destroying Confederate supplies?
Dred Scott Case
What Supreme Court case ruled that slaves were property and not citizens, therefore having no legal right to sue?
Fort Sumter, SC
What is the location of the first military action of the Civil War?
Confederacy
What was also known as the South and the Confederate States of America that believed in spreading slavery?
Popular Sovereignty
What was the right for a state to vote on whether slavery would be legal or not?
The Battle of Gettysburg
What is considered "the turning point of the Civil War," also being one of the bloodiest battles of the war?
Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign
What was a series of battles fought in throughout northwest Georgia organized by Union General William T. Sherman?
Andersonville Prison
What prison was run by Confederate Captain Henry Wirz that held captured Union soldiers, but was known for its high death rate?
Reconstruction
What was the period after the Civil War in which the United States addressed the readmission of states that had seceded and the legal status of African Americans?
Antebellum
What is a term that means "before the war?"
Scorched Earth Policy
What is a military strategy that focuses on the destruction of the enemy's essential resources?
Radical Republicans
What is a member of the Republican Party that believed in the emancipation of slaves (and the equal treatment of freed slaves later)?
Richmond, VA
What was the capital of the Confederate States of America for the majority of the Civil War?
Secede
What is to formally withdraw from a group or an organization?
Sharecropping
What is a system in which a tenant rents small plots of land from a landowner in return for a portion of their crop?
Appomattox Court House
What was the final battle of the Civil War, ending in a Union victory and the Confederacy's surrender?
Bleeding Kansas
What was a period of repeated outbreaks of violence after the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed? (Pro-slavery and anti-slavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote, leading to violent encounters.)
Vicksburg, MS
Where did the Union gain control of the Mississippi River during the Siege of Vicksburg?
Segregation
What is the separation of a group of people from another due to race, ethnicity, religion, etc.?
Tenant Farmers
What is a farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or in shares of produce?
First Battle of Bull Run
What is the first official battle of the Civil War?
Expulsion of black legislators
What happened when white legislators conspired to remove the black and mixed-ethnicity members from the Georgia General Assembly?