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What was the largest Civil War battle fought in Georgia?
What is the battle of Chickamauga?
Which southern state was the first to endorse the Compromise of 1850, with stimulations?
What is Georgia?
What was the name of the prison in Southwest Georgia?
Andersonville Prison
Who led the March to the Sea?
What is General T. Sherman
How did James Oglethorpe gain the friendship of Georgia's Yamacraw Indians?
He engaged the translation services of Mary Musgrove
What was the Union's Anaconda Plan?
What is to prevent supplies from reaching the South from overseas and cut off Confederate supply routes
What was the significance of The Compromise of 1850?
It delayed the Civil War by keeping the North and the South happy with the compromise.
Who was the commander of the Andersonville prison?
Captain Henry Wirtz
What was the goal of Sherman's March to the Sea?
What is to cut off Confederate supply lines and disrupt the Southern economy
Why did James Oglethorpe have more influence on the early Georgia Colony than the other trustees?
What is He was the only trustee to live for a time in Georgia?
Who won the battle of Chickamauga?
What is The South defeated the North
What is the fugitive slave act
Act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves.
Due to rail lines what city became a major center of manufacturing and trade for the South?
What is Atlanta?
The Union blockade of Georgia's coast was part of what strategic plan?
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The capital city of Georgia is located in which of the state's regions?
What is Piedmont?
Despite the outcome, Union leaders believed the Battle of Chickamauga was an important step towards
What is capturing Atlanta and controlling the Confederate railroads?
Which state was made a free state due to the Compromise of 1860?
What is California?
Why did people die at Andersonville?
What is It was overcrowded, offered poor food, contaminated water, and poor sanitation?
What was the purpose of the March?
To frighten Georgia civilians so they would no longer support the Confederacy and to make them lose any hope of winning the war.
How did the Emancipation Proclamation alter the Civil War?
What is it made ending slavery an official goal of the Union?
As the Union was attacking the Confederacy, the Confederacy was able to dive the Union back to Chattanooga. What mistake did the Confederacy then make? What was the outcome of that decision?
The confederates did not follow up on their victory by attacking retreating soldiers.
Supreme Court decision that declared African Americans as property and not citizens?
What is the Dred Scott Case?
What were TWO goals on which Abraham Lincoln based his 1860 presidential campaign?
What is keep the Union intact and stop the spread of slavery?
How did the Union blockade of Georgia's coast relate to the Anaconda Plan?
The purpose of the Anaconda Plan was to cut off Confederate supply lines in order to weaken the South and Georgia's ports were main supply lines.
What strategic objective contributed to President Abraham Lincoln's decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
By freeing all slaves in the Southern states, Lincoln made the war about slavery and caused European nations to resist aiding the Confederacy.