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antebellum georgia
antebellum georgia, civil war, reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The belief that one region is better or more important than the other | sectionalism |
| Which was NOT a cause of the Civil War? federalism, sectionalism, slavery, states' rights | federalism |
| who was elected president of United States in 1860? | Abraham Lincoln |
| After Lincoln's election, which leader called for Georgia to remain in the Union? | Alexander Stephens |
| Why did the Supreme Court rule against Dred Scott? | He was a slave and not eligible to sue in court. |
| Who was the Union General who led the "March to the Sea", which devastated much of Georgia on a path from Atlanta to Savannah? | William T. Sherman |
| Where was a notorious Confederate prison located in Georgi? | Andersonville |
| Where did the bloodiest one-day battle of the Civil War take place? | Antietam |
| What was significant(important) about Gettysburg? | 1. turning point of the Civil War & 2. battle with the most casualities(deaths) |
| What is meant by secession? | withdrawing or pulling out of the Union |
| What is true about the Battle of Chickamauga? | bloodiest battle fought in Georgia |
| Which is NOT an event that led the United States closer to Civil War? Compromise of 1850, Lincoln's assassination, Election of 1860, Dred Scott decision | Lincoln's assassination |
| What did the Emancipation Proclamation demand? | Slaves in states that had rebelled against the Union were to be set free |
| What effect did the Union blockade of Georgia's coast have during the war? | South couldn't receive supplies or conduct trade with other nations |
| What occurred as a result of the Atlanta campaign? | Atlanta was burned to the ground |
| The belief that the states' interests take precedence over interests of national government is known as | states' rights |
| What was the temporary remedy that called for Missouri to enter the US as a slave state and Maine to enter as free stae and outlawed slavery north of the 36degree 20' latitude | Missouri Compromise of 1820 |
| This act created Kansas and Nebraska and stated that those territories had right of popular sovreignty and could decide whether or not to allow slavery. | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| This allowed California to enter the US as a free state and include a Fugitive Slave Act which required northern states to return runaway slaves to the south. | Compromise of 1850 |
| Who fired the first shots of the Civil War? | Confederacy |
| This amendment gave freedman US citizenship | 14th amendment |
| This amendment abolished slavery | 13th amendment |
| This amendment provided all males the right to vote regardless of race | 15th amendment |
| this was created to help poor whites and freedmen to get on their feet and receive an education | Freedmen's Bureau |
| This man was one of the first black leaders elected to office in Georgia | Henry McNeal Turner |
| A terrortist group who wanted to keep blacks from voting and exercising their rights as freedmen | Ku Klux Klan |
| System where the landowner issued credit and provided a house, land equipment, animals, fertilizer and seeds to one who would work the land. the landowner received a BIG share of the crops grown | sharecropping |
| system where the landowner provided housing and land to one who would give him a SET amount of his profits at the end of the growing season. the worker usually made a small profit with this system | tenant farming |
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