Vocabulary
Forced labor
Slavery
Alexander Stephens
Created a weak government
Articles of Confederation
What was another name for the North
Union
What is another name that people called the South
Confederacy
Belief that the states’ interests take precedence over the interest of national government.
States rights
This person tried to sue for his freedom
Dred Scott
Add Maine as free state and Missouri as a slave state
Missouri Compromise
The Union created this strategy known as the Anaconda Plan
Union blockade
This city was not destroy during Sherman March to Sea
Savannah
Admitted California as a free state and instituted the Fugitive Slave Act.
Compromise of 1850
Won the election of 1860
President Lincoln
Admitted California as a free state
Compromise of 1850
Living in the North if you opposed slavery, you were called this
Abolitionists
Chickamauga battle
Legal theory that states had the right to not follow any law they believed to be unconstitutional.
Nullification
Lead the Atlanta Campaign
General Sherman
Only freed the slaves in the states that left the Union
Emancipation Proclamation
This state was added as a free state with Missouri Compromise
Maine
This place is where they kept prisoners from the Union
Andersonville
Republican Party formed and took an anti-slavery position; Abraham Lincoln won and became US President.
Election of 1860
Sent the US army to South Carolina to collect tariffs
Andrew Jackson
The North would support the Fugitive Slave Act and not ban slavery in new states in order to uphold the Compromise of 1850; Georgia was credited with secession.
Georgia Platform
This Union General lead the March to Sea
General Sherman
What does CSA stand for
Confederate States of America