MCMS 8th Grade Causes of the Civil War and Effects on GA

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Which statement best explains why there are so few accounts written by slaves about their lives during the antebellum era? Options: Books about slavery were not as popular as other books. It was illegal for slaves to learn to read or write. Only abolitionists leaders wrote books about slavery. Slaves were not willing to write about the horrors of slavery.

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It was illegal for slaves to learn to read or write.

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Which region of the United States believed that states should be able to govern themselves without interference from the national government?

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Southern states

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The early 1800's belief of some people that a state could vote down a federal law was known as ____.

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Nullification

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In the ____________ court case, the Supreme court sided with the owners of the slave saying that he was not a citizen of the U.S. and merely property, so he did not have the right to sue his owner.

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Dred Scott

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The "Georgia Platform" was a statement supporting _____

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The Compromise of 1850

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The purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act was to _____?

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Require slaves that had run away to go back to their owners.

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The Dred Scott decision made by the Supreme Court in 1857 declared that _____.

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Slaves were property and had no constitutional rights.

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Which event led to a special legislative session in Georgia to consider seceding from the Union? Options: John Brown's raid, Lincoln's presidential election, The firing upon Fort Sumter, The Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Lincoln's presidential election

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Which is the reason many Georgia plantation owners favored secession? A desire for increased markets in the North. Fear that abolition would end their way of life. The need to import large numbers of new slaves. Trouble getting agricultural loans from the Northern banks.

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Fear that abolition would end their way of life.

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Before the Civil War, the economy of the North was based mostly on ____.

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Industry