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The idea that it was American's destiny to expand the country westward.
What is Manifest Destiny.
Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta
What are Georgia's state capitals
What is Slavery.
What is State's Rights
The side of the war that Georgia belonged to
What is the Confederacy
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
A university that was given a land grant to study agriculture.
What is the University of Georgia.
An agreement between the Union and the Confederacy that aimed to make them both happy by giving the North no slave trade in Washington D.C. and the South the Fugitive slave act.
What is the Compromise of 1850
A plan created by the Union army to surround the Southern states and suffocate them all necessary supplies to live and function.
What is the Anaconda Plan.
A prison camp where kidnapped Union soldiers lived in extremely harsh and deadly conditions for the duration of the Civil War.
What is Andersonville.
A group of people who were displaced from their homes as a result of the belief of Manifest Destiny.
Who are the Native Americans
A land policy that gave land to men who fought in the Revolutionary war.
Headright System
Andrew Jackson's attempt to tax the South on their extreme crop production to level the economic playing field between the North and the South.
What is Nullification
This was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln that changed the federal legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the designated areas of the South from slave to free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation.
This battle was the first in GA and was the second deadliest battle in the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Chickamauga?
The most deadliest battle in the Civil War
What is Gettysburg.
A machine that made it significantly easier to produce cotton by removing the seeds.
What is the cotton gin.
A statement released by the Georgia Convention in response to the Compromise of 1850. It said that Georgia accepted the compromise but warned the Union not to mess with them again.
What is the Georgia Platform
The side of the war that was declared the winner of the Civil War and whose policies took control over the country.
What is The Union
The goal of this event was to cut off Confederate supply lines and disrupt the Southern economy from Atlanta to Savannah. The soldiers destroyed everything in their path.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea
The reason Sherman targeted Atlanta during his Atlanta Campaign
What is it was a railroad hub.
A land policy where 4 major companies bribed the Governor and legislatures to buy land for CHEAP.
What is the Yazoo Land Fraud
A slave who was taken by his master to the free states of Illinois and Wisconsin. Upon his return to Missouri, he sued the state based on the belief that his time spent in the free states made him a free man.
Who is Dred Scott
Ships placed on the Eastern border of the Confederacy to cut off their imports from across the sea.
What is the Union Blockade
DAILY DOUBLE: The two official names of the Union and the Confederacy.
What is the Confederate States of America and the United States Army.