Loyalty to your state or region over the country as a whole was one cause of the Civil War known as______
Sectionlism
What type of economy did the South have prior to the Civil War?
Agricultural economy
Alexander Stephens disagreed with the decison but withdrew from the Union along with the rest of the state of Georgia. This is known as___
Secession
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?
Tariffs, taxes on imports
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
Missouri Compromise (lasted almost 30 years!)
The Compromise of 1850 included what state and act?
California allowed in Union as free state and Fugitive Slave Act enforced
- position supported by several prominent Georgia politicians who supported the Compromise of 1850 but stipulated that session would happen if agreement was broken
The Georgia Platform
The final straw in 1860 that led to the session of Southern states from the Union.
The election of 1860, election of Abraham Lincoln
(1857) - Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not citizens of the United States
the Dred Scott Case
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
Blockade, Anaconda Plan, or Scott's Great Snake
- infamous Civil War prisoner-of-war camp in Macon County, Georgia. Over 13,000 Union soldiers died in the camp
Andersonville Prison
- 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
Sherman's March to the Sea
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.
Emancipation Proclamation
