a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional
What is Nullification
100
the action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.
What is Abolition
200
bloodiest single day
What is Anietam
200
Georgia's Antebellum Capital. (1803 to 1868)
What is Milledgeville
200
enslaved African American man who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom
What is Dred Scott
200
pride of your devoted interest in your geographical region
What is Sectionalism
200
a Sunday comic strip drawn by Frank Giacoia from November 18, 1956 to May 24, 1959.
What is Johnny Reb and Billy Yank
300
bloodiest battle
What is Gettysburg
300
the capital of the Confederate States of America
What is Richmond
300
vice president of the Confederate States of America
What is Alexander Stephens
300
A law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states.
What is Fugitive Slave Act
300
A naval engagement of the Civil War, fought in 1862 off the coast of Virginia between two ironclad ships, the Union Monitor and the Confederate Virginia
What is Ironclads Monitor v. Merrimack
400
first shots of the battle
What is Ft. Sumter
400
south surrendered to the north
What is Appomattox Courthouse
400
General in chief of the Confederate armies
What is Robert E. Lee
400
to stop people or supplies from entering or leaving especially during a war
What is Blockade
400
the Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford
500
2nd bloodiest battle of the war after Gettysburg. 1st major battle battle on Ga.
What is Chickamauga
500
largest military Confederate prison
What is Andersonville
500
general and commander of the Union armies
What is Ulysses S. Grant
500
A speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg Address
500
an American and Confederate political leader, Whig Party senator from Georgia, a founding father of the Confederacy, its first Secretary of State, and a Confederate general in the American Civil War of 1861-1865