WEEK 2 SS8H5-9

Name the 3 causes of the Civil War

• Slavery, States Rights, Nullification
• Nullification, States rights, and People
• Slavery, Federal Rights, Nullification

Supreme Court decision ruling that since slaves were not citizens, they could not sue in court

• Homer Plessy
• Dred Scott
• Worchester vs. GA

Why did the north create the Union Blockade?

• To disable the South's economy
• To block the Mason Dixon line
• To set up for a railroad crossing

. Which battle took place September 18 – 20, 1863, and was a Confederate victory. This battle is also known as the largest battle fought in Georgia?

• Battle of Atlanta

• Battle of Ezra Church

• Battle of Chickamauga

• Battle of Peachtree Creek

Which American document, issued by Abraham Lincoln, led to the freedom of slaves in territories rebelling against the Union?

• The Declaration of War

• The Slavery Proclamation

• The Civil Rights Declaration

• The Emancipation Proclamation

This group helped newly freed slaves with food, medical care, jobs, housing and schooling. 

• Sharecropping
• Jim Crow Laws
• Reconstruction
• Freedmen's Bureau 

The members of Congress battled with both presidents because they felt that the Presidential Reconstruction Plans:

• were too focused on helping the freed African slaves, but not on helping the poor, white farmers.
• were too strict to allow the Union to ever be reunited as it was prior to the Civil War.
• were too lenient on the Southern states that had rebelled against the Union.
• were created too quickly without consulting the former leaders of the Confederate states.

Secret Organization established to terrorize and make it difficult for ex-slaves to exercise their rights.

• Black Panthers

• National Rifleman's Association

• Sons of the Confederate Soldiers

• Ku Klux Klan

This was a job many ex-slaves turned to after slavery because they had nothing but the clothes on their back...

• Tenant Farming

• Sharecropping

• Butler

• Blacksmith

Many of these were removed from Georgia's General Assembly for a variety of reasons, such as being accused of being a non-resident of the county for which he was elected and for being illiterate...

• Ex-Civil War Soldiers

• Members of the White Caucus

• Black Legislators

• Democrats