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35 Cards in this Set
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What were southern states called? |
south- Confederacy
north- Union |
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How were the economies of the north and south different?
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North depended on industry and South depended on agriculture.
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What does is mean to secede?
How is this term relevant to this unit? |
To separate, withdraw |
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What was the Union?
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The Northern states
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What was the Confederacy?
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The Southern states
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What is states' rights?
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The belief or function of states being able to make government decisions themselves.
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Which region of states supported states' rights?
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The Southern states
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On what issue did the North and South fight?
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Slavery
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Why was slavery so important to Southern states, including Georgia?
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Their economy depended on agriculture- they feared they would not survive without slaves
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What was the main crop that Georgia grew?
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Cotton
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Why did northern and southern states argue over new states that entered the U.S.?
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The new state's laws on slavery would determine power in Congress. Each region wanted to keep the other from gaining too much power.
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What were the terms of the Missouri Compromise?
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Missouri entered as a slave state.
Maine entered as a free state. |
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What were the terms of the Compromise of 1850?
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California entered as a free state.
Texas entered as a slave state. The north agreed to support the Fugitive Slave Act. |
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What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
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People were required to assist in the capture and return of freed slaves.
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What was the Tariff of 1828?
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a tax on foreign goods.
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What were the North and South's feelings regarding the Tariff?
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North felt it protected them from the South buying cheaper goods from Great Britain.
South felt it wasn't fair to force them to buy northern goods by raising the prices of British goods. They wanted to nullify the tax. |
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What is nullification (to nullify)?
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when states ignore a federal law that they believe is unfair.
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What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act and what was the result of it?
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Kansas and Nebraska territories were allowed to hold an election to decide on whether they would enter as slave or free states.
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What was Bleeding Kansas?
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A violent event that occurred in the north and south's attempts to convince the Kansas and Nebraska territories to side with their political views on slavery.
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Who was elected president in the Election of 1860 and what was the result of the election?
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Abraham Lincoln. As a result, the South seceded and the Civil War began.
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What was the decision of the Scott vs. Sandford court case?
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the courts decided that Dred Scott did not deserve to be free.
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What was the Georgia Platform?
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a statement declaring that Georgia would accept and support the Compromise of 1850 as long as the North supported the Fugitive Slave Act.
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Who was Alexander Stephens and what is he credited for?
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He was a GA representative who convinced Georgia to support the Compromise of 1850. Because of this, he is credited with putting off the war.
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Which battle was the single bloodiest day in the war?
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Battle of Antietam
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Which battle was fought for control over a railroad?
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Battle of Chickamauga
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After what battle was the Emancipation Proclamation issued?
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Battle of Antietam
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What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
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freed slaves in Confederate states
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Who did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT affect, and why?
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border states, because Lincoln didn't want to lose the support of those states
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What was Andersonville?
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Confederate prison
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What was the Union blockade of Georgia's coast?
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Union tactic to block southern states and hurt their economy by preventing supplies from going in and out
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Was the blockade successful?
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In some ways, but the Confederates had blockade runners, which were ships that snuck through the Union's blockade.
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What was Sherman's March to Sea?
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a campaign in which Union General William Tecumseh Sherman marched from Atlanta to Savannah, burning everything and taking supplies to refuel his army.
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What did the Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and Kansas-Nebraska Act have in common?
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They all dealt with maintaining a balance of free and slave states.
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Who commanded the Confederate's army?
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Robert E. Lee
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Who commanded the Union's army?
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Ulysses S. Grant
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