Road to Disunion Pt. 1
This event almost led to the secession of South Carolina in 1832 over a federal tariff placed by Andrew Jackson.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This state joined the union in 1850 as a free state.
What is California?
This journey from Atlanta to Savannah, led by General Sherman, used "total war" to destroy anything of value to the Confederates.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
This is the outcome of the March to the Sea.
What is Savannah is captured peacefully?
The name of the country that the Southern states created when they seceded.
What is the Confederate States of America?
These two states were created in a compromise passed in 1820. They kept the balance between free and slave states.
What are Missouri (slave) and Maine (free)?
Explain the GA Platform
What is GA's goal for the compromise of 1850 (would only agree if the fugitive slave act was passed)?
This was the Confederate prison camp used to hold Union soldiers during the Civil War.
What is Andersonville?
What was to destroy their transportation hub? (Punish the South/make it difficult to rebuild).
This was the year GA seceded.
What is 1861?
This man sued for his freedom in 1854, claiming that slavery was not allowed North of the 36, 30 line.
Who is Dred Scott?
These two new technological inventions furthered slavery in Georgia by leading to a specialization of one crop in the state.
What are the Cotton Gin and the Railroad?
The first shots fired of the Civil War took place here.
What was Fort Sumter?
This was the MAIN issue with the prison camp located in Georgia used by the Confederacy during the Civil War.
What is overpopulation?
This was the candidate most popular in Georgia during the election of 1860.
Who was John Breckinridge?
What are Economies, Political Beliefs (States Rights v. Federal Power), and Slavery?
This was the final straw to the Southern states, leading South Carolina to immediately secede.
What was the Election of 1860?
Who is the Confederacy?
The 2nd bloodiest battle of the Civil War and the largest ever fought in GA. This led to the promotion of William Sherman to General.
What is the Battle of Chickamauga?
These are advantages of the Union during the Civil War.
What are Railroads, population, industries?
The issue of slavery was to be determined by _____________________ after the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854.
What is popular sovereignty?
This GA statesmen argued against secession however when offered the job of Vice President of the Confederacy, he took it.
Who was Alexander Stephens?
This announcement declared all slaves in rebellious States were free, therefore making the Civil War focused on the issue of slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This plan was meant to stop the Confederates from trading with key European partners during the Civil War.
What was the Anaconda Plan? (Union Blockade).
These are advantages of the Confederacy during the Civil War.,
What are agriculture, military leadership and "home field advantage"?