Civil War Review

The Fugitive Slave Act was added to this compromise to please Southern states.

• Missouri Compromise
• Georgia Platform
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

What does the term "popular sovereignty" describe?

• The right of the federal government to nullify laws
• Abolitionism
• The vote to end the Civil War
• The right of the states to vote on laws

What is being described: The North and South compromised by agreeing that if a slave state was added to the Union, then a free state would also be added.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Georgia Platform
• Missouri Compromise
• Tariff of 1865

Who is Alexander Stephens?

• A secessionist who wanted Georgia to leave the Union immediately.
• He helped to pass the tariff of 1828 and served as Lincoln's Vice President
• A Georgian who did not agree with secession and was Vice President of the Confederacy
• A slave who sued for his freedom

Georgia's position on slavery in the new territories after the Compromise of 1850 was clearly stated in the ___.

• Atlanta Compromise
• Missouri Compromise
• Georgia Platform
• Fugitive Slave Act

Which of the following was not a result of the Dred Scott Case?

• Slaves could fight in the Union Army
• Slaves were property in both free and slave states
• Slaves were not citizens
• Slaves were not allowed to sue in court

What did Georgia do after Lincoln was elected in 1860?

• Seceded from the Union
• Seceded from the Confederacy
• Abolished slavery
• Remained loyal to the Union

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

• It freed all slaves in Confederate states
• It freed all slaves in the U.S.
• It put Ulysses S. Grant in charge of all Union forces.
• It allowed slaves to fight in the Confederate army. 

Which of the following best describes the effects of the Civil War on Georgia?

• The war led to equality between blacks and whites
• Georgia was not majorly effected by the war.
• Thousands of Georgians died in battle while many others suffered at home.
• Small farmers suffered a great deal but people in Atlanta were spared from any hardship.

Who was commander of the Confederate army who surrendered at Appomattox Court House?

• Jefferson Davis
• William Sherman
• Dred Scott
• Robert E. Lee