Events Leading to War
This 1860 election caused Southern states to begin seceding.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
Georgia joined this group of breakaway states.
What is the Confederacy?
He was President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The act of a state leaving the Union.
What is secession?
True or False: Georgia’s economy was based on manufacturing.
What is false?
This act allowed states to vote on slavery, leading to violence.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This military campaign destroyed Atlanta and much of Georgia.
What is Sherman’s March to the Sea?
He led the Union army through Georgia.
Who is General William T. Sherman?
The Northern states were also known as this.
What is the Union?
What were two major reasons Georgia seceded?
What are slavery and states’ rights?
This compromise tried to balance free and slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Georgia’s economy relied heavily on this crop.
What is cotton?
He was President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The farming-based Southern economy relied on this system.
What is slavery?
How did Sherman’s March affect civilians in Georgia?
What is it caused destruction and hardship?
This was the main cause of disagreement between North and South.
What is slavery and states’ rights?
This time period followed the war and tried to rebuild the South.
What is Reconstruction?
This document freed slaves in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Blocking ports to stop trade or supplies.
What is a blockade?
This concept was at the heart of Georgia’s political disagreement with the Union.
What is states’ rights?
This Supreme Court case ruled African Americans were not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott case?
This battle helped Lincoln win reelection.
What is the Battle of Atlanta?
This was the main belief used to justify secession.
What is states’ rights?
This term means to weaken or make something unable to function.
What is incapacitate?
Name one effect of Reconstruction in Georgia.
What is political or social change (e.g., rejoining Union)?