Civil War

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Atlanta's military importance to the Confederacy was that it was the

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industrial and transportation center of the Confederacy.

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What Union general led the northern army on its "March to the Sea" and saw to it that much of Georgia's capital resources were destroyed?

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William T. Sherman

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What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

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It freed all slaves in states fighting against the Union.

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What was the impact of Sherman’s “March to the Sea”?

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It left a path of destruction from Atlanta to Savannah that crippled the Confederacy.

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How was the Emancipation Proclamation a concession to the South?

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The South could keep their slaves if they stopped fighting.

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The MOST LIKELY reason General William T. Sherman wanted to control the rail lines running through Atlanta, Georgia, during his "Atlanta Campaign" was because he wanted to

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cut off the flow of supplies to the Confederate army.

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This Civil War-era illustration is showing

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the Union blockade of the South.

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Another name for the United States of America.

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The Union

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A strategy in which the North used its superior navy to prevent the South from shipping cotton to England and France in return for weapons and other supplies. Georgia ports at Savannah, Brunswick and Darien were blocked by Union ships.

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Union blockade

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An announcement by Abraham Lincoln to the southern, Confederate states in rebellion to surrender or their slaves would be freed. The document also recruited black soldiers into the Union and added ending slavery to the goals of the Civil War.

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Emancipation Proclamation