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| What is a tax on imported goods? | Tariff |
| What is the period before or leading up to the Civil War? | Antebellum |
| To prevent the enemy's trading by sea is a | blockade. |
| Who were people that wanted to end slavery? | Abolitionist |
| Why did the South want to keep the same number of free and slave states after the Missouri Compromise of 1820? | to keep representation in the Senate equal so the North would not abolish slavery |
| What agreement said slavery was not to be extended north of 36 N 20' latitude, and states would be admitted to the Union in pairs of one slave and one free? | Missouri Compromise (1820) |
| What convinced most southern states to accept the Compromise of 1850? | Alexander Stephens, Cobb, and Toombs and the Georgia Platform |
| What did the Supreme Court decide in the Dred Scott case? | He was property and not a citizen, so he had no rights. |
| What agreement did the North gain the admittance of California as a free state, while the South gained strengthening of the Fugitive Slave law? | Compromise of 1850 |
| What did the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act all try to do? | Preserve the Union |
| Why did Southern states agree to accept the Compromise of 1850 and not secede? | They were convinced by Alexander Stephens, Cobb, & Toombs through the GA Platform. |
| Why did the North blockade Southern ports? | The North did not want foreign countries to sent supplies to the South and to prevent them from exporting cotton |
| What are two things that the Battle of Antietam is known? | Lincoln's issued his Emancipation Proclamation, and it was the bloodiest one day battle of the war. |
| What did Lincoln do in the Emancipation Proclamation? | He freed all slaves in states that had seceded from the Union. |
| Where was the battle that the North first attempted to invade Georgia but was unsuccessful? | Chickamauga |
| What was the importance of the Battle for Atlanta? | to cut off rail lines and supply center of the South |
| Why was important for Sherman to destroy Atlanta? | The Sourh would no longer have a rail central and supply base. |
| What did General Sherman decide to do after he took Atlanta? | March to the Sea by destroying a 60 mile wide path from Atlanta to Savannah |
| What did General Sherman give to Abraham Lincoln as a Christmas present? | Savannah |
| Where was the horrible prison camp in Georgia where many Union soldiers died? | Andersonville |
| Who was the Vice president of the Confederacy? | Alexander Stephens |
| What did the North believe about tariffs? | They helped protect American Industry from foreign competition. |
| What important event happened after the Battle for Atlanta? | The fall of Atlanta led to Lincoln's re-election two months later in November of 1864. |
| What was the belief of most southerners that power not specifically given to the Federal government in the Constitution should be reserved for the states? | States' Rights |
| What was the economic situation in the South in 1860? | The Southern states needed many slaves because they planted many labor intensive crops. |
| What did the North believe about tariffs? | Tariffs would protect American industry from foreign competition. |
| How did abolitionists in the North infuriate southerners? (3 things) | Refused to follow Fugitive Slave Laws; helped runaway slaves escape;wanted national government to make slaver illegal in the territories. |
| What almost stated the civil war in 1832? | the Nullification Crisis when S.C. tried to nullify a tariff. |
| What was the purpose of the Fugitive Slave Law? | Runaway slaves had to be returned to their rightful slave owners. |
| What was the strategic importance of the Emancipation Proclamation? | It changed the focus of the war from secession to slavery? |
| What was a northern victory, the largest battle, and the turning point of the war in the East? | Gettysburg |
| What was the view of the Radical Republicans? | The South should be punished and fundamentally changed. |
| What legally abolished slavery? | 13th Amendment |
| Which group promoted violence and intimidation of blacks and others who threatened to change the South? | Ku Klux Klan |
| what was the organization designed to help former slaves get back to work and become independent? | Freedman's Bureau |
| What was the solution to the landowner's need for laborers and the freedmen's need for land? | Sharecropping & Tenant farming |
| What did Congress do to insure that confederate states weree kept under control? | The South was divided into five military districts. |
| What was the addition to the Constitution that guaranteed citizens the right to vote regardless of race? | 15th Amendment |
| What was the addition to the constitution that made anyone born in the US a citizen and guaranteed their rights? | 14th Amendment |
| What is the system where a farmer worked the land of a landowner in exchange for cash or an agreed upon share of the harvest but usually had his own equipment, animals, seed, and fertilizer? | Tenant farming |
| Why is Henry McNeal Turner famous? | He became one of the first group of black legislators to be elected in the history of GA. |
| By 1870, what had happened in GA? | GA had finally met all Congressional requirements and was allowed to return to the Union. |
