Causes of the Civil War
This law required runaway enslaved people to be returned to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
California entered the Union as this type of state under the Compromise of 1850.
What is a free state?
This event led Georgia to hold a special session to debate secession.
What is Lincoln’s election in 1860?
This Confederate leader from Georgia served as Vice President of the Confederacy.
Who is Alexander Stephens?
This Union general led the March to the Sea.
Who is William T. Sherman?
This Union plan aimed to surround and choke off the Confederacy.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
What was the court's decision in Dred Scott case?
... ruled enslaved people were property, not citizens.
Slave trading was ended in this U.S. location to satisfy the North.
What is Washington, D.C.?
Lincoln won the presidency without receiving votes from this entire region.
What is the South?
This Georgia site became infamous as a Confederate prison camp.
What is Andersonville?
The March ended in this Georgia city.
What is Savannah?
This tactic hurt the Southern economy the most during the war.
What is the naval blockade of Southern ports?
This belief argued states’ rights were more important than the federal government.
What is states’ rights?
This compromise attempted to balance free and slave state interests in 1850.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Many Georgians opposed Lincoln because he wanted to stop this from expanding.
What is slavery?
This battle was one of the bloodiest of the Civil War and occurred in Georgia.
What is the Battle of Chickamauga?
The goal of the March was to destroy this to weaken the Confederacy.
What are supply lines and the Southern economy?
The Union wanted Atlanta mainly because it was a major ____.
What is a railroad hub?
Besides slavery and sectionalism, this belief was another major cause of the Civil War?
What is states’ rights?
This platform, co-authored by Alexander Stephens, supported the Compromise of 1850.
What is the Georgia Platform?
Lincoln based his campaign on keeping the Union together and preventing this.
What is the spread of slavery?
These were the two major military campaigns fought in Georgia.
What are the Atlanta Campaign and Savannah Campaign?
Farms, railroads, and infrastructure were destroyed to achieve this goal.
What is ending civilian support for the war?
This document made ending slavery an official Union war goal.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This idea caused tension because different regions supported different policies and candidates.
What is sectionalism?
This controversial part of the Compromise angered many Northerners because it required citizens to actively enforce slavery, even in free states.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Georgia’s electoral votes went to this candidate instead of Lincoln.
Who is John Bell?
After the war, the commander of Andersonville Prison faced this punishment.
What is execution for war crimes?
Sherman wrote a letter explaining why he was about to do this to Atlanta.
What is destroy the city to end the war?
The Anaconda Plan was named after a snake because it aimed to do this to the South.
What is surround and cut off supplies?