Road to the Civil War

Multiple Choice

Why was the Georgia Platform important

• It stated that Georgia had a right to nullify any federal law dealing with cotton

• I stated that Georgia would not accept the terms of the COmpromise of 1850 if the North enforced the Fugitive Slave Law

• It stated that Georgia would accept the Compromise of 1850 if the North enforced the Fugitive Slave Law

• It stated that Georgia would secede from the Union

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What was the purpose of both the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850?

• They both dealt with slavery in the new territories

• They both dealt with nullification

• They both made the south get an advantage in the Senate

• They led to the election of Abraham Lincoln

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What is being described? California was admitted as a free state; Fugitive Slave Act was passed; Slavery was banned in Washington, D.C.

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Georgia Platform

• The Nullification Crisis

• The Compromise of 1850

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Multiple Choice

Republican candidate and victor in the election of 1860

• Stephen Douglas
• John Breckenridge
• Abraham Lincoln

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Supreme Court decision ruling that since slaves were not citizens, they could not sue in court

• Homer Plessy
• Dred Scott
• Worchester vs. GA

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The idea that a state can declare a federal law invaid within its borders

• tariff
• regionalism
• abolitionists
• nullification

Multiple Choice

What did South Carolina do after Lincoln's win?

• seceded from the Union
• threw Lincoln a party
• dumped all the tea in the ocean.

Multiple Choice

What was the Fugitive Slave Act?

• A law that made slave owners return the slaves that they stole from other plantations

• A law that made the plantation owners return any slaves that rebelled rather than cause harm to them physically

• A law that made northern states return any slaves that escaped from the South

• A law that stated that slaves were property

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The election of Abraham Lincoln led to

• southern states seceding from the Union

• southern states protesting with a March in Washington DC

• northern states nullifying the election results

• a recount in Illinoise

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