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Antebellum Georgia
The Civil War
Reconstruction
Terms
Battles
100
The time period before the war
What is antebellum
100
A document issued by President Lincoln that freed slaves in the Confederacy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
Won the Civil War.
What is north? ( union/United States)
100
This compromise gave a silent nod to keep slavery in the south.
What is The Compromise of 1850?
100
bloodiest one day battle fought in the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam
200
States' Rights
What is the main reason the Civil War was fought.
200
The souths' stragedy that if they stopped selling cotton to France and Great Britian...it would force them to help break the blockades.
What is King Cotton Diplomacy
200
Have their votes taken away
What is disfranchised?
200
This act contained a clause on popular sovereignty which meant people of a territory could vote on whether to be slave or free state.
What is The Kansas-Nebraska Act
200
The bloodiest battle fought in Ga. Gen Bragg defeated Union Gen.Rosecran, but failed to follow the Union retreat.
What is the Battle of Chickamauga?
300
Supported Slavery and needed them for their economy.
What is south?
300
The most famous Confederate prison for Union soldiers located near Americus, ga. .
What is Andersonville?
300
Amendment that made Slavery illegal.
What is Thirteenth Amendment?
300
The drafting of men to serve in the army.
What is conscription?
300
Won the battle of Gettysburg.
What is the Union?
400
This invention increased the need for slavery.
What is the cotton gin
400
Jefferson Davis, Alexander Stephens, and Robert Toombs
Who are the president, Vice-president and secretary of state respectively.
400
Northerners that moved south after the war for their own gain.
What is a carpetbagger?
400
Helped both former slaves and poor whites cope by offering food, clothing and other necessities.
What is The Freedmans Bureau
400
He led the destruction of Atlanta to Savannah and gave Savannah to President Lincoln for a Christmas present.
Who is William T. Sherman?
500
This compromise kept a balance of power between the free states and slave states in the senate and provide a temporary solution.
What is the Missouri Compromise
500
first shots of the civil war
What is Fort Sumter?
500
Gave all males the right to vote
What is the fifteenth amendment?
500
Granted citizenship to freedmen and equal protection under the law.
What is the fourteenth amendment?
500
A strategy to obstruct all imports to the south.
What is a blockade