The idea that the South had the right not to follow a federal law
What is nullification?
100
Anaconda Plan
The Union used naval ships to prevent the south from continuing to trade materials (such as cotton) with the British.
Kept the south from having the materials necessary to continue to fight.
What is the Union Blockade of GA’s Coast?
100
Set up to assist freed slaves.
Assisted them with food, clothing, shelter, education, and with getting jobs.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
100
Powerful Democratic leaders
Expanded Georgia’s economy
Developed ties with industries in the North
Maintained the tradition of white supremacy
What is the Bourbon Triumvirate?
100
Laws passed to segregate (separate) blacks and whites.
What are Jim Crow laws?
200
A Tax on imported goods
What is a tariff?
200
BLOODIEST SINGLE DAY BATTLE of the Civil War.
No Clear winner
South: Robert E. Lee
Objective was to take Washington, D.C.
North: George McClellan
McClellan allowed Lee to retreat back into Virginia instead of attacking
What is the Battle of Antietam?
200
a farming method in which a land owner loans farmers housing, seeds, and tools in return for part of the crop’s profits.
What is sharecropping?
200
Spokesman of the New South.
Wanted Georgia to advance to an industrial society that could compete with the north
Increase the technology used in farming
Who is Henry Grady?
200
Supreme Court decision which stated that segregation was legal
The separate but equal doctrine
“The races may be separated as long as they have equal facilities
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
Missouri entered the U.S. as a slave state
Maine entered as a free state in 1820
Tried to keep slavery in the south
Tried to keep balance in Congress
Outlawed slavery north of 36°30' latitude (the southern border of Missouri)
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
Issued by Abraham Lincoln after Battle of Antietam
Stated that all slaves in any states in rebellion against the Union would become free on January 1, 1863.
Did not include 4 Border States who supported slavery but did not secede
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
a similar system except the tenant farmer would provide their own seeds and tools and only rented land.
What is tenant farming?
300
Designed to show the economic recovery that had taken place in the south by 1895.
Northern businesses could come and invest money in the south
Chance for southern farmers to show they could diversify crops
What is the International Cotton Exposition?
300
Denying people the right to Vote
Mostly aimed at the African-Americans
What is disfranchisement?
400
California enters the U.S. as a free state.
Texas entered as a free state in 1850.
4 Territories would not come into the Union
Fugitive Slave Act
Required northern states to return runaway slaves to the south.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
400
July 1 to July 3, 1863
Turning Point of the Civil War
Bloodiest BATTLE of the Civil War
Union Army defeats the Confederates.
Lee makes terrible mistake of ordering Pickett’s Charge
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
400
Outlawed slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
400
Worked to protect small farmer’s rights
Against the New South Movement
Introduced Rural Free Delivery (RFD)
A system of better communication by having mailed delivered, for free, to your home
Who were Tom Watson and the Populists?
400
Believed social and political equality would come with improved economic conditions and education.
Believed in slow, progressive movements in the Civil Rights era
Delivered the famous “Atlanta Compromise” speech in 1895.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
500
Written by Alexander Stephens
Supported the Compromise of 1850
The North would support the Fugitive Slave Act and not ban slavery in new states in order to uphold the Compromise of 1850.
Georgia was credited with preventing war and secession.
What is the Georgia Platform?
500
September 1863 in Northwest GA
Objective was the railroad lines
Union troops were driven back to Chattanooga
Bloodiest battle in GA
What is Chickamauga?
500
Granted citizenship to freedmen and required “equal protection under the law” for all freed slaves.
What is the 14th Amendment?
500
Supporter of women’s suffrage (the right to vote)
Helped increase social reform for women’s rights.
Became the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate in 1922.
Helped to get Prohibition (ban on alcohol) passed
Helped to end convict release system
Who is Rebecca Latimer Felton?
500
Believed in “action” if African Americans and whites were to understand and accept each other
Thought Booker T. Washington was too accepting of social injustice
Created the NAACP at the Niagara Convention