Compromises
This state was admitted as a slave state under the Missouri Compromise
What is Missouri?
In this crisis in the 1830s, South Carolina threatened to secede over the extension of tariffs that hurt southern cotton farmers.
What is the nullification crisis?
The first shots of the Civil War were fired on April 12, 1861, at this location in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter?
Sometimes called the "Picnic Battle," this first major battle of the Civil War in northern Virginia shocked onlookers at how bloody it was, and foreshadowed a long and violent conflict.
What is the (first) Battle of Bull Run? (OK: Battle of Manassas)
This was the first battle in Georgia in the Civil War in September 1863. It was the second-bloodiest battle in the whole war.
What is the Battle of Chickamauga?
This state was admitted as a free state in the Compromise of 1850
What is California?
According to this idea, states were sovereign and held the ultimate authority, and they could choose which federal laws to follow according to the state's preferences.
What is "States' Rights?"
This was the name for the new country the Southern states declared in the Civil War.
What is the Confederate States of America? (OK: Confederacy)
After the Battle of Antietam in 1862, Lincoln issued this statement that would take effect January 1, 1863, in states that were currently in rebellion.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This area in South Georgia held Union prisoners of war in disease-ridden conditions, resulting in thousands of illnesses and deaths.
What is the Andersonville Prison?
In the Missouri Compromise, Maine was admitted as a free state to keep this.
What is balance of slave and free states in Congress?
In 1857, Chief Justice Roger Taney wrote the opinion for this case, which declared that Black people were not citizens and that slavery could never be banned.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
John Breckenridge, one of Abraham Lincoln's opponents in the 1860 election who won most of the southern states, mostly ran on this one issue.
What is pro-slavery?
In this battle in July 1863, Southern armies invaded the north unsuccessfully. This battle is often considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This general led the conquest of the city of Atlanta, followed by a campaign to "March to the Sea," destroying Confederate resources along the way.
Who is General William Tecumseh Sherman?
Georgia and other southern states insisted on this part of the Compromise of 1850.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
The U.S. fought in this war in the late 1840s and won, gaining all its opponent's territory north of the Rio Grande river in what is now the western United States. This opened up new territory that could become either new slave states or free states, ratcheting up tensions between North and South.
What is the Mexican-American War?
After Lincoln was elected in November 1860, Georgia decided to do this in January 1861.
What is secede?
After 51,000 casualties, the most of any battle in U.S. history, Lincoln visited the battlefield and gave this, his most famous and enduring speech.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
After Sherman occupied Atlanta, when he left, almost every building in Atlanta had been ____.
What is burned to the ground?
In the Compromise of 1850, Utah and New Mexico territories were admitted as ____ territories, meaning their people could vote as to whether they would be slave or free.
What is "popular sovereignty?"
What is the Georgia Platform?
Early on in the war, the Union (North) decided to create a _____ encircling the coast to cut the South off from trade.
What is a blockade? (Also acceptable: "Anaconda plan")
In April 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at this location, ending the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House?
For Christmas in 1864, Sherman famously sent a letter to Abraham Lincoln, stating he gave him ____ as a Christmas gift.
What is the city of Savannah? (See primary source here: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/general-shermans-christmas-gift-president-lincoln )