The Law
1. The Nullification Crisis of 1832 was centered around this event.
What is taxes?
3. This battle is remembered for being both the largest battle ever fought in Georgia and for being one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War.
What is Chickamagua?
5. What was the name of the Supreme Court case that raised the issue of a black slave who lived in a free state and questioned whether slaves were free once they set foot on Northern soil.
What is Dred Scott?
7. The destruction in Georgia would be so complete that it would break the Confederacy's will to continue fighting, refers to this event.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea? 7.
8. Early in Lincoln’s presidency, he stated that his primary goal was
What is to preserve the confederacy and contain slavery?
2, 11, 9 This principle was used to justify nullifying laws.
What is states rights?
15. Explain the reason the Union put a blockade along the coast of Savannah.
What is to cut off supplies to the Confederacy?
19. Explain the intent of the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is to free slaves in the rebelling states?
12. Important railroad tracks were destroyed, severing supply lines for Confederate forces refers to this.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
21. This man was the commander of Andersonville prison and the only person executed after the end of the Civil War.
Who was Henry Wirz
4. This document quieted radicals who wanted to secede after the Compromise of 1850 was handled.
What is the Georgia Platform?
18. The Union blockade was not successful early on because of
What is blockade runners?
14. Describe the voting and outcome of Georgia’s debate on succession.
What is more than one vote because the state was divided
16. The prisoners at Andersonville were from
What is the North (Union)?
17. Lincoln's political party?
What is the Republican Party?
23. This required the North to return all runaway slaves
What is The Fugitive Slave Act?
25. The Battle of Chickamagua was fought over control of
What is the railroad?
6.The ruling of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case stated
What is slaves were not citizens and did not have the right to sue?
20. This battle encouraged President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antienam?
The number of votes Abraham Lincoln received in Georgia for president
What is zero?
13. The Compromise of 1850 stated
California would be admitted as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Act would be enforced
26. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign was designed to do this
What is to destroy the "Heart of the Confederacy"?
Final Jeopardy
This person was president of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis
22. Sherman’s “scorched earth” policy was designed to
What is to end the war?
This was the first state to leave the Union following Abraham Lincoln's election
What is South Carolina?