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The ________________, the deadliest war in the U.S., was fought between the North and the South.

American Civil War

Label the 2 sides of the American Civil War:

North(Union)


South(Confederacy)

What were the THREE causes of the American Civil War?

Slavery


States rights


Nullification

Southern states (especially in South Carolina) believed that states should have the right to decide which federal laws they should or should not follow, which was called the ________________.

Nullification Act

The loyalty to a particular region is called ___________.

Regionalism

The loyalty to a particular nation is called ___________.

Nationalism

South Carolina was the first state to leave the Union, which is called _________.

Secession

The Compromise of ____ added California as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act was approved, enacted popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico territory, and the slave trade was ended in Washington, D.C.

1850

The ________________ was a law that made it illegal to help runaway slaves and allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and returned to their owner.

Fugitive Slave Act

The political stance that Georgia would remain in the Union only if the Fugitive Slave Act was followed and if they stopped banning slavery in new territories was called the ______________.

Georgia Platform

A slave sued for his freedom, but lost; in this case, the _____________, the judge used that slaves were property and didn't have rights, making all states slave states.

Dred Scott Case

Abraham Lincoln was elected president in the election of ____.

1860

With a Union ________, the Union tried to block the south from getting supplies, but the Confederacy used _______________ to get much needed supplies.

Blockade


Blockade runners

The Battle of Antietam allowed Lincoln to issue the ___________________, a document that freed slaves in all REBELLING states.

Emancipation Proclamation

_____________, a Confederate prisoner of war camp in Georgia, was commanded by _________.

Andersonville


Henry Wirz

_____________, a Union General, marched through Georgia on his Atlanta Campaign to destroy the states capital and gain control of the railroad hub, then in his March to the Sea, destroyed everything on his way to Savannah, which he captured and gave to President Lincoln as a Christmas present.

William T. Sherman