BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR
Most southern states supported the concept of states having their own rights because they wanted to protect what ?
What conditions were the Union soldiers facing in the prison that they were held at and what was the name of this prison?
Andersonville (Hunger,exposure,disease)
What was the 14th Amendment?
Granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States
What does the term Nullification mean?
List 2 synonyms
Void
Ignore
Cancel
Revoke
What was the Supreme Court's decision in the Dredscott v. Sanford case?
Enslaved African Americans can not be U.S citizens (African Americans did not have a right to sue because they were considered property)
Which amendment abolished slavery?
13th
What was the period called After the Civil War?
Reconstruction Era
What was the purpose of black codes?
List atleast 2
Black codes were restrictive laws passed by legislators after the civil war to control newly freed African Americans.
1)In what year was President Abraham Lincoln elected president?
2)What TWO goals did he have based on his campaign?
What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?
It freed all slaves that were rebelling against the Union
What was the 15th Amendment?
All men have the right to vote no matter the race or color.
Which vocabulary term means to separate or split apart?
Secede
How did the Georgia Platform help prevent Georgia from Seceding in 1850)
They supported the Compromise of 1850 buy with certain conditions (If the Northerners kept their promise)
What was the first major Civil War battle fought in Georgia?
Who Won?
The Battle of Chickamauga
List three things the Freedmen's Bureau provided for former slaves and poor white people
Education, Food, Shelter, Jobs, Opportunity, Settled disputes for African Americans
Which Union tactic led to Georgia's industrial growth? (Cut off trading with for Confederates)
Blockading (Union Blockade)
Which event is being described below?
"They tore down my fence, garden, yard railings"
"Flames are all I see"
"Theses men and horses are everywhere"
Shermans March to the Sea
Who were the KKK
Racist white southerners that felt threatened by African Americans