Concept 6: Civil War/ Reconstruction

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Nullification

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to declare Federal Law invalid

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Which of the following is NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850? The slave trade in the District of Columbia was abolished, California entered the Union as a free state, Congress pass the Fugitive Slave Act

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Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state

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Which result of the Compromise of 1850 benefitted slave states?

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Fugitive Slave Act, design to return slaves to their owners

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Which of the following was NOT considered to be a cause of the Civil War? Tariffs, States’ rights, Slavery, Trail of Tears

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Trail of Tears

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States' rights could be BEST defined as the belief that states

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could ignore national laws if they were harmful to the state

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What was the major type of labor used on Georgia's plantations before the Civil War? Options: indentured servitude, hourly wage labor, sharecropping, slavery

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slavery

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What was a result of the Compromise of 1850? Options: owning slaves was forbidden in Washington DC, California was allowed to enter as a free state, Texas was allowed to annex New Mexico, Popular sovereignty was established

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California was allowed to enter as a free state

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What did the U.S. Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott case?

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because he was a slave and he was not eligible to sue in court; slaves are property

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The Georgia Platform stated that GA would stay in the union, if the north agreed to follow the:

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Compromise of 1850

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Why did Alexander Stephens help to create and write the Georgia Platform?

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Keep the United States together