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47 Cards in this Set
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Why did Sherman march through Georgia?
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He wanted to destroy Georgia's resources. Especially Georgia's railroads and any supplies for the opposing army.
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What was the Andersonville Prison for?
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Union Prisoners of war
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Where was Georgia's secession convention held?
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Milledgeville
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The increase in the cost of cotton was not effected by what?
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The naval blockade on Georgia.
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True/False.
Black slaves didn't fight in all black units in the confederacy. |
True
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These four states were considered the border states.
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Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware
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What was the first capital of the Confederacy?
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Montgromery, Alabama
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What was the first major battle of the Civil War?
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Manassas in Virginia
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What was the first official name of the southern nation?
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Confederate States of America.
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Declaring war on the U.S was not true of what Ordinance.
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Ordinance of Secession
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What isnot true of the Confederate Constitution?
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limiting the number of slaves imported into Georgia to 1000 a year.
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Where did Robert E. Lee surrender to General Grant?
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Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia.
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True/False
The publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin was an immediate cause of the Civil War. |
False
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Where did many Geoirgians loyal to the Union live.
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Mountain Areas
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Where did sherman's march through Georgia end?
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Savannah
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What date did the Civil War began?
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April 12, 1861
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What did the Emancipation Proclamation declare?
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All slaves in the confederacy were free.
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What was one thing no supported by the Republicans?
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extending slavery in the West.
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Why was Georgia the most important military target?
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It was an industrial and transportation center.
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Before seceding from the Union, this Georgian wasnted to wait and see what Lincoln did.
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Alexander Stephens
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Which state first seceded from the Union?
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South Carolina
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When did the Civil War officially come to an end for Georgia?
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When Johnston surrendered to Sherman in North Carolina.
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When did the Civil War Began?
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When the Confedrates fired on Fort Sumpter in Charleston Harbor.
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Almost 1,000 prisoners died at Andersonville Prison
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Falst
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Blacks were little affected when Georgia seceded from the Union.
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True
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The reasons why Georgia withdrew from the Union were explained in the Declaration of the Causes of Secession.
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True
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The Confederate Constitution was modeled after the U.S. Constitution.
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True
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The Confederate flag was also referred to as the Stars and Stripes.
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True
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Both the North and South thought the war would be a short war.
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True
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The North won the Civil War.
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True
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About half of the black soldiers who served in the Union army were former slaves
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True
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The South was more prepared for war because it had more resources than the North.
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False
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More men died in the Civil War than in any other war in which the United States has been involved.
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True
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facilities where weapons and ammunition are manufactured and stored.
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arsenal
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use of military forces to isolate enemy
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blockade
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loose union of states in which central
confederacy government is given limited power. |
Confederacy
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Subject to no higher government
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sovereign
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Law requiring civilians to join the army
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draft
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Andersonville prison commander
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Henry Wirz
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Governor of Georgia during the Civil War
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Joseph Brown
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President of the Confederacy
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Jefferson Davis
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Vice-president of the Confederacy
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Alexander Stephens
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Author of the Confederate Constitution.
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Thomas R.R. Cobb
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"What happened first?
(A) Battle of Atlanta (B) Battle of Kennesaw Mountain |
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
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What happened first?
(A) South Carolina secedes from the Union. (B) Fort Sumter is fired on by the Confederates. |
South Carolina secedes from the Union.
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"What happened first?
(A) Sherman's March to the Sea (B) Great Locomotive Chase |
Great Locomotive Chase
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What happened first?
South Carolina secedes from the Union. Lincoln is elected president. |
Lincoln is elected president.
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