(September 18-20, 1863) - Confederate victory; largest battle fought in Georgia; allowed the Union to later advance to Atlanta

The North’s primary objective was to use its superior navy to prevent the South from shipping its cotton to England and France in return for weapons and other supplies

The Compromise of 1850 included what state and act?

- position supported by several prominent Georgia politicians who supported the Compromise of 1850 but stipulated that session would happen if agreement was broken

Loyalty to your state or region over the country as a whole was one cause of the Civil War known as______

(1857) - Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not citizens of the United States

an agreement between the northern and southern states about allowing Missouri to enter as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state enabled the balance of power to remain the same

The nullification crisis in the early 1830’s, was a dispute over fees charged for getting supplies from outside your own state or region. What are these fees called?

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.

This cause was both a political and moral issue and led to additional causes of the war.

Alexander Stephens disagreed with the decison but withdrew from the Union along with the rest of the state of Georgia. This is known as___

- 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

- infamous Civil War prisoner-of-war camp in Macon County, Georgia. Over 13,000 Union soldiers died in the camp