GA's Role in the Civil War SS8H5B Part 1

The South's economy depended on slavery and the North's economy did not.

Most people in the South believed slavery was morally wrong.

Northerners thought slavery was hindering (getting in the way of) the nation's economic growth.

Southerners wanted to eliminate slavery gradually; northerners wanted to get rid of it all at once.

Confederates

Sharecroppers

Secessionists

Abolitionists

The right of the states (the people in the states) to vote on laws.

Abolitionism

The right of the federal government to nullify laws.

The vote to end the Civil War.

Seceded from the Union.

Seceded from the Confederacy.

Remained loyal to the Union.

Abolished slavery to avoid war.

The African slave trade should be ended immediately.

Slavery should not be allowed to spread into the new United States territories.

A constitutional convention should be held to resolve the issue.

All slaves in the United States should be freed within 10 years.

To destroy all rail lines

to take Atlanta

to keep the South from trading goods by ship

to force Lee's surrender at Gettysburg

Brunswick

Savannah

Darien

Milledgeville

It freed all slaves in the states fighting against the Union.

It freed all slaves in the United States.

It put Ulysses S. Grant in charge of all Union forces.

It allowed all slaves to fight in the Confederate Army.

Confederate leaders adopted the Georgia Platform.

Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

The South fired on Fort Sumter.

Chickamauga

Antietam

Gettysburg

Kettle Creek

Control of the railroad center in nearby Chattanooga.

Access to the port city of Savannah.

Access to ammunition

The fate of Washington, D.C.