The student will analyze the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Georgia. Explain the importance of key issues and events that led to the Civil War; include slavery, states rights, nullification, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850 and the Georgia Platform, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott case, election of 1860, the debate over secession in Georgia, and the role of Alexander Stephens. State the importance of key events of the Civil War; include Antietam, the Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, the Union blockade of Georgia's coast, Sherman's Atlanta Campaign, Sherman's March to the Sea, and Andersonville. Analyze the impact of Reconstruction on Georgia and other southern states, emphasizing Freedmen's Bureau; sharecropping and tenant farming; Reconstruction plans; 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the constitution; Henry McNeal Turner and black legislators; and the Ku Klux Klan
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compromise between the North and South that allowed California to enter the
union in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.
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Compromise of 1850
Great Compromise
Kansas Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
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Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not citizens of the United States.
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Worcester V. Georgia
Plessy V. Ferguson
Dred Scott Case
Brown V. Board of Education
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compromise between the North and South that allowed California to enter the
union in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.
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Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not citizens of the United States.
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election where Abraham Lincoln defeated three opponents to win the presidency; upon
Lincoln’s election Southern states seceded from the Union.
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position supported by several prominent Georgia politicians who supported the
Compromise of 1850.
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The 16th president of the United States, he preserved the Union
during the U.S. Civil War and brought about the emancipation of slaves.
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the act of making legally null and void.
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the act of separating from a nation or state and becoming independent; the withdrawal
of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War.
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involuntary servitude of African-Americans or Blacks in the United States from 1619-1865.
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the belief that a state’s sovereignty is more important than that of the national
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infamous Civil War prisoner-of-war camp in Macon County, Georgia. Over 13,000
Union soldiers died in the camp.
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a series of battles fought in the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864.
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Confederate victory; largest battle fought in Georgia; fought over a railroad; led to the battle of Chattanooga.
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document that declared all slaves in the rebellious states would be freed if
the South did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863.
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Union military campaign led by William T. Sherman from November 15-December
25, 1864 with Savannah being the ultimate objective; more importantly Sherman used a “scorched earth” policy to end the South’s will to fight.
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a naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading. The
Union wanted to try and choke off resupply to the South, and to prevent the shipment of arms, ammunition and material to the Southern States
