Civil War
What did cotton have to do with slavery?
Cotton was a cash crop that produced a lot of money. The more cotton produced the more money plantation owners made. The more cotton that was produced, the more workers were needed. Enslaving people to do this work in the cotton fields was how they saved money (rather than paying a fair wage) and made money (more enslaved workers = more cotton = more profit).
The Civil War General on the Confederate Side
Robert E Lee
The period of time between the end of the War of 1812 and the beginning of the Civil War when the differences between the northern and southern states became stronger.
Antebellum period.
The two primary Indian groups who lived in Georgia
Cherokee and Creek
The Native American chief who gave land to the Georgia trustee colony overlooking the Savannah River
Tomochichi
The Civil War started in 1861 and ended in this year.
1865
The British trustee who wanted to help English citizens thrown into jail for debt so he founded the colony of Georgia for debtors.
James Oglethorpe
This is what it is called when states said that enslaved people are free, which happened at different times for different states.
emancipation
Where did the Indians go who were removed from Georgia?
Oklahoma territory
This causes the sunrises and sunsets in Georgia
The earth's rotation every 24 hours.
What did it mean when Georgia seceded from the Union?
It declared itself its own nation separate from the United States and therefore did not have to follow the laws of the US or its president.
The president whose election the people in Georgia were not happy about and who was assassinated after the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
The name for the people who worked to get rid of the practice of enslaving human beings.
Abolitionists
Name at least 2 ways that Native Americans responded to Americans wanting to take their land
Try to be more like white people by adopting their way of life, fighting, making treaties with White people, going to court, leaving the land willingly.
This country created the 13 American colonies, including Georgia?
Great Britain
The reason Georgia joined with other southern states to create the Confederacy.
Georgia and other states realized that they could not fight the US Union by themselves so they joined forces together.
Who was the Civil War General on the Union Side?
Ulysses S Grant
The group of northern states that fought to abolish slavery during the Civil War
Union
This is how the Indian Removal Act of 1830 was enforced.
After Andrew Jackson ordered the Indian Removal Act to be enforced, it was the US Military and Georgia militia that enforced it by raiding Native Americans' homes and forcing them to walk to Oklahoma, often without belongings or adequate food, shelter, and clothing.
This causes the seasons in Georgia.
The earth's revolution around the sun.
Describe what the Underground Railroad was.
It was NOT an actual railroad with trains and it was NOT actually underground. It was called “underground” because it was secret. It was called “railroad” because it helped enslaved people move from slave states to free states. The Underground Railroad was a group of abolitionists in the southern slave states who helped hide, feed, and clothe enslaved people and help guide them to the next safe place until they could get to a free state in the north.
The president who wanted to expand land and economic power and ordered Native Americans to be removed from their land.
Andrew Jackson
The group of southern states that fought to keep slavery during the Civil War
Confederacy
Describe how the Trail of Tears got its name.
There was so much death and suffering by the the Native Americans who were forced to walk in winter to Oklahoma that many people were injured or killed.
This is at least one difference between the northern and southern states during the Antebellum period.
Northern states did not use slavery, southern states did.
The economies in the north were largely urban and industrial. In the south they were more rural and agricultural.