Unit 6 - Civil War Review

Commander of the Andersonville Prison, executed after the war

A Supreme Court that ruled that African Americans, both free and slave, had no rights and were not US citizens

Civil War prisoner of war camp located in Macon, County, GA

A US army general who led the Atlanta campaign and his infamous "March to the Sea"

Required runaway slaves to be returned to the south if they were captured anywhere else in the United States

A military strategy where everything is target, military and civilian. Used during Sherman's March to the Sea

Document that declared all slaves in Confederate states free, and allowed African Americans to serve in the military

A series of battles fought in Georgia, led by union general William Sherman, where Atlanta was the ultimate objective

President during the US Civil war, signed the Emancipation Proclamation

Election where Abraham Lincoln won the presidency and caused many southern states to secede.

Union military campaign that ended with the Union army reaching Savannah

The act of making something legally null, or void

A belief states' sovereignty is more important than than that of the national government

States where slavery was not legal

This had the effect of helping gain support of the Compromise of 1850 by southern states

The state that threatened to secede during the nullification crisis

States where slavery was legal

Loyalty to ones state or region rather than the country as a whole

Involuntary servitude of African Americans in the United States from 1619-1865

Ships used by the south to try to break through the Union blockade and trade cotton with Europe

Compromise that brought Missouri in as a slave state, Maine in as a free state, and created the 36'30" line

Confederate victory, in northern Georgia and Tennessee, fought in and around Chattanooga

Compromise that brought California in as a free state, Texas as a slave state, and the fugitive slave act

The act of separating from a nation and becoming independent, many southern states did this after the election of 1860

A naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading.