Causes of the Civil War
This is what the economy of the North was based upon.
What is manufacturing and trade?
A law that stated if a escaped enslaved person was caught, they were to be returned back to the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The Confederacy won this battle, but lost Chatanooga during the battle.
What was the Battle of Chickamauga?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This is what economy of the south was based on.
What is cotton?
When several states in the southern part of the United States decided to leave the country (the Union) and form their own separate government, mainly because they wanted to keep slavery.
What is secession?
The Union blockade plan where the port of Savannah was shut down. Trade between Georgia and England was stopped.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
This person marched to the sea through Atlanta and the rest of Georgia.
Who is General Sherman?
This was one of the main causes of civil war, especially as the country moves westward and new territories in the west apply for statehood.
What is slavery?
One of the causes of the Civil War, when states believe they don't have to follow federal laws, if it doesn't fit what they want.
What is States Rights?
This was important because Atlanta was a major railroad hub for weapons, medical supplies, and troops to get to the Confederacy.
What was the Sherman Atlanta Campaign?
This person fought again being a slave in a court case that went all the way to the Supreme Court.
Who is Dred Scott?
This made slavery a moral cause for the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Small, fast ships that evaded naval blockades to transport goods and mail to and from a blockaded port, used by the Confederacy.
What are blockade runners?
This is the name of the Prison camp where 30,000 men lived with contaminated water, no food, and horrible living conditions.
What is Andersonville?
This group of people helped pass the Compromise of 1850 and this delayed the war by 10 years.
Who was the Georgia Platform?
This admitted California as a free state and led to the Fugitive Slave Act.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
This was created to help maintain the balance between free and slave states.
Also known as Total War, Sherman marched his troops through Georgia burning everything that could help the Confederacy.
He gave the speech The Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the slaves in the Confederate states.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?