Causes of the Civil War and Civil War in Georgia

Nullification

• to manifest destiny
• to emancipate slaves
• to declare invalid
• to accept with dignity

What political action got Georgian's to approve of the Compromise of 1850?

• Chief John Ross Leadership
• Justice Marshall's decision
• South Carolina leaving the Union
• Georgia Platform

Which of the following is NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850?

• The slavery was abolished

• Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state

• California entered the Union as a free state

• Congress pass the Fugitive Slave Act

Which result of the Compromise of 1850 benefitted slave states?

• Slave trading was ended in the District of Columbia.
• Fugitive Slave Act, design to return slaves to their owners
• Texas did not annex New Mexico as a slave territory
• California joined the Union as a free state.

Which of the following are considered to be a cause of the Civil War?

• Tariffs

• States’ rights

• Slavery

• Trail of Tears

Which best describes a part of the Dred Scott decision?

• It was the first time slave states and free states agreed

• All anti-slavery laws were invalid

• Free states cheered the decision which led to riots

• Slaves could sue for their freedom from their owners

Who had a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives during the antebellum period ?

• Those opposing slavery
• Those favoring popular sovereignty
• Those favoring slavery
• Those favoring state’s rights

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

• could not free their states
• could leave the Union at anytime
• could ignore national laws if they were harmful to the state
• could force the national gov't to turn over all property

What was the major type of labor used on Georgia's plantations before the Civil War?

• indentured servitude
• hourly wage labor
• sharecropping
• slavery

The early 1800s belief of some people that a state could refuse to enforce a federal law

• absolution
• justification
• nullification
• ratification