Compromises
This state was admitted as a slave state under the Missouri Compromise
What is Missouri?
Refusing to pay, South Carolina threatened to secede in the 1830s, over the extension of taxes that hurt southern cotton farmers.
What is the nullification crisis?
The first shots of the Civil War were fired on April 12, 1861, at this location in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter?
Sometimes called the "Picnic Battle," this first major battle of the Civil War in northern Virginia shocked onlookers at how bloody it was, and foreshadowed a long and violent conflict.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
This area in Georgia held Union prisoners of war in disease-ridden conditions, resulting in thousands of illnesses and deaths.
What is the Andersonville Prison?
This state was admitted as a free state in the Compromise of 1850
What is California?
Southern states believed in the state's authority (state's rights) to govern what happens inside their borders. The Union believed that right belonged to the ________.
Federal government
A group united in an alliance or for mutual benefit.
What is a confederation? As in the Confederate States of America.
After the Battle of Antietam in 1862, Lincoln issued this statement that would take effect January 1, 1863, in states that were currently in rebellion.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
During the Civil War, this is the capital of Georgia.
What is Milledgeville?
Originally surveyed to settle colonial boundaries, this line became a symbolic dividing line between slavery in the south and freedom in the north.
Mason–Dixon line
In 1857, the verdict in this case stated that all Black people in the U.S. were not citizens and therefore could not sue in court. Name the case.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
One of Abraham Lincoln's opponents in the 1860 election who won most of the southern states, mostly ran on a pro-slavery platform.
Who is John Breckinridge?
Doctrine that meant if an enslaved person was taken by their owner to a free state or territory, they legally became free.
What is "Once Free, Always Free"
This general led the conquest of the city of Atlanta, followed by a campaign to "March to the Sea," destroying Confederate resources along the way.
Who is General William Tecumseh Sherman?
The final part of the Compromise of 1850 required that enslaved runaways be returned to the south, even if they were in a free state.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
The is the first state to secede.
What is South Carolina?
Someone who fights against slavery and advocates for its elimination.
What is an abolitionist?
This actor assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in 1865.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
Sherman’s march ended in this coastal Georgia city.
What is Savannah?
In the Compromise of 1850, Utah and New Mexico territories were admitted as ____ territories, meaning their people could vote as to whether they would be slave or free.
What is "popular sovereignty?"
Howell Cobb and other Georgia leaders threatened to secede but eventually accepted the Compromise of 1850 if the North would live up to its obligations under the Fugitive Slave Law. This ultimatum is the ____.
What is the Georgia Platform?
Early on in the war, the Union created a blockade encircling the coast to cut the South off from trade, called the _____ Plan.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
In April 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at this location, ending the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House?
This was the first battle in Georgia in the Civil War in September 1863. It was the second-bloodiest battle in the whole war.
What is the Battle of Chickamauga?