Civil War Vocab Recovery 2025

infamous Civil War prisoner-of-war camp in Macon County, Georgia. Over 13,000 Union soldiers died in the camp.

• Antietam

• Andersonville

• Chickamauga

• Gettysburg

a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864; a Union military campaign led by William T. Sherman from May 1864-September 1864 with the Atlanta as the ultimate objective;

• March to the Sea

• William T. Sherman

• Atlanta Campaign

• Andersonville

Confederate victory; largest battle fought in Georgia; led to the battle of Chattanooga.

• Antietam

• Chickamauga

• Atlanta

• Gettysburg

document that declared all slaves in the rebellious states would be freed if the South did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863.

• Scorched Earth Policy

• March to the Sea

• Andersonville

• Emancipation Proclamation

Union military campaign led by William T. Sherman from November 15-December 25, 1864 with Savannah being the ultimate objective; more importantly Sherman used a “scorched earth” policy to end the South’s will to fight.

• March to the Sea

• Atlanta Campaign

• Scorched Earth Policy

• Andersonville

all of the assets that are used or can be used by the enemy are targeted, such as food sources, transportation, communications, industrial resources, and even the people in the area; Sherman employed this policy during his March to the Sea campaign.

• March to the Sea

• Atlanta Campaign

• Scorched Earth Policy

• Andersonville

a naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading. The Union wanted to try and choke off resupply to the South, and to prevent the shipment of arms, ammunition and material to the Southern States.

• Union Blockade

• Blockade runners

• Anaconda Plan

• Emancipation Proclamation

compromise between the North and South that allowed California to enter the union in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.

• Dred Scott Case

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Georgia Platform

Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not citizens of the United States.

• Georgia Platform

• Dred Scott Case

• Missouri Compromise

• Nullification

act that required runaway slaves to be returned to their masters if caught anywhere in the United States.

• Dred Scott Case

• States Rights

• Nullifcation

• Fugitive Slave Law