Causes of the Civil War
This event was the final straw for the South and led to the secession of the southern states, forming the Confederate States of America.
Election of 1860
This event began in the Piedmont region and make it's way to the Coastal Plain, capturing the port of Savannah and rewarding it to Abraham Lincoln as a Christmas gift.
Sherman's March to the Sea
This group was created during Reconstruction as a Confederate social club but later turned into a white supremacist group, using violence to intimidate black voters.
Ku Klux Klan
This term was given to Northern businesses who came to the South to invest and start businesses.
Carpet Baggers
This Supreme Court case ruled "separate but equal" after a man tried to sit in the wrong section of the train car.
Plessy v. Ferguson
This law led to Missouri being admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Plus, no slavery above the 36' 30' line of latitude.
Missouri Compromise
This event began in the Appalachian Plateau and stopped in the Piedmont region with Union troops destroying everything in it's path from railroads to supply lines and more.
Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
This plan was created by Lincoln and stated that as long as ten percent of southern voters pledged loyalty to the Union, then the southern state would be readmitted into the Union.
10% plan
During the New South, the focus of the economy shifts from this to this.
Agriculture to Industry
These laws were named after a racist image of a black character and were discriminatory to blacks by prohibiting their access to locations and their movements.
Jim Crow Laws
This event violated an earlier compromise when a slave tried to sue for his freedom because he lived in a free state for so long. The event ruled that slaves were property and NOT U.S. citizens.
Dred Scott case
This plan led to the blocking of southern seaports with the intent to block transportation lines and strangle the South.
Anaconda Plan or Union Blockade
This plan led to the impeachment of the president due to how forgiving it was to the southern states and returning property to former Confederates. It also did nothing to address the creation of the Black Codes that enforced racial discrimination.
Johnson's Plan
This man was the editor of the Atlanta Journal, later the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and coined the phrase "The New South."
Henry Grady
This term refers to blocking the vote, primarily towards blacks. This term relates to methods such as poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clause, and white primary.
Disenfranchisement
This law led to California being admitted as a free state and the creation of the Fugitive Slave Act, requiring runaway slaves to be returned to the South.
Compromise of 1850
This location was a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp that held 40,000 Union soldiers - 4x more than it was meant to hold. Many prisoners died due to disease, dehydration, and starvation - leading to Captain Henry Wirz being executed for his crimes.
Andersonville
This group was government-created during Reconstruction to help newly freedmen adjust to freedom by helping negotiate labor contracts, track down family members, and provide education. Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) was the primary achievement from this short-lived group.
Freedmen's Bureau
This event promoted a blend of agriculture and industry and placed Atlanta and Georgia on an international level. Atlanta held three of these events.
This man created the NAACP and advocated for blacks to fight for their rights through education and taking a stand.
W.E.B. DuBois
These were seen as the two ideals that resulted in the Civil War.
This event occurred in the Ridge and Valley region of Georgia and pushed Union troops back to Chattanooga, holding off Sherman's forces coming into Georgia for a year.
Battle of Chickamauga
This group's plan is known as the Congressional Plan. This group impeached Andrew Johnson and divided the South into military districts until the 14th & 15th Amendment were ratified (approved).
Radical Republicans
This group was a series of Georgia governors who pushed industrialization, working with the press to encourage a shift into the economy.
Bourbon Triumvirate
This man gave the "Atlanta Compromise" speech at the International Cotton Exposition and advocated for blacks to learn a skill and trade and eventually mutual respect would be earned and given.
Booker T. Washington