Civil War Crossword

Confederate Civil War prisoner of war camp where Union soldiers were housed during the Civil War. Many men died due to starvation and disease.
Battle fought in north Georgia that would be the deadliest battle of Georgia.
Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant to end the Civil War.
The formal act of leaving the Union.
This victory reassured the North and Lincoln was re-elected president. The capture of Atlanta allowed the Union to destroy rail roads and industry important to the war effort.
A land compromise that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Established the 36-30 line that banned slavery to its north
An act that freed slaves in the states of rebellion. The Southern states could keep their slaves if they would give up the war and rejoin the Union.
The military plan to block trade to all southern ports to cut off supplies and ammunition to the southern war effort
The first battle of the Civil War. Union soldiers were encamped at the fort and the South demanded that they leave. The fort was bombarded until the North surrendered.
A military campaign to destroy the Southern support of the war by destroying the country side and making the Georgia citizens not want to support the war by making the war horrible for them.
A statement issued by Georgia representatives supporting the Compromise of 1850 but only if the North ended its attempt to stop slavery and support the Fugitive Slave Act
A belief held by southern states that laws that violated their state’s rights were null and void
The belief that the rights of the state were more important than the rights of the federal government
An idea spread by Anit-slavery movement in the North that believed that the national government had the right to keep slavery from spreading into new territories
Allowing the new territories to decide on the issue of slavery by voting.