2. Potpourri Georgia and the War Georgia and the War The War Begins The War Begins A Nation Comes Apart A Nation Comes Apart Antebellum Georgia 50 40 30 20 10 20 30 40 50 10 20 30 40 50 10 20 30 40 50 10 20 30 40 50

3. About what part of white families owned slaves during the antebellum period in Georgia

4. This event led to the conversion of thousands of Georgians to Christianity and the building of many Methodist and Baptist churches

5. Three conditions that must be met in order to grow cotton

6. Describe these important dates in UGA history: 1785 1801 1918

7. The reason many Georgians felt slavery was needed

8. Kept the balance in Congress by admitting Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state

9. Ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in America’s territories

10. Allowed new states to vote on whether they would become free states or slave states

11. Encouraged Georgians to accept and endorse the Compromise of 1850

12. How northern and southern views differed on the issue of state’s rights

13. The first battle of the Civil War

14. How the split in the Democratic Party affected the election of 1860

15. What Alexander Stephens believed Georgia should do about seceding from the Union

16. The two capitals (city, state) of the Confederate States of America

17. These two Republican policies favored northern states

18. This decree claimed that “All persons held as slaves in any state or part of a state waging war against the U.S. are freed.”

19. Considered a turning point in the war. Afterwards the Confederate Army had to retreat back into Virginia.

20. The first major battle fought in Georgia

21. Two of the three factors that contributed to the horrible conditions at Andersonville prison

22. The three phases of Sherman’s campaign against Atlanta

23. Attacking not just military targets, but economic and government targets as well, is a form of warfare known as

24. The single bloodiest day of the war (23,000 total casualties)

25. Admitted California as a free state in return for the North agreeing to honor the Fugitive Slave Act

26. Describe the treatment of slaves throughout the South

27. The three purposes of the Union blockade of southern ports known as the Anaconda Plan