Georgia Studies Unit 5 Review

Which is a reason many Georgia plantation owners favored secession?

• a desire for increased markets in the North
• the need to import large numbers of new slaves
• fear that abolition would end their way of life
• trouble getting agricultural loans from Northern banks

Why did Southerners favor secession rather than accept Abraham Lincoln as president?

• Lincoln did not receive a majority of popular votes.
• Lincoln wanted to stop the spread of slavery.
• Lincoln wanted settlers in territories to vote on slavery.
• Lincoln wanted to give women the right to vote.

After the Civil War, the typical planter in Georgia had plenty of land but no labor to work it. How was slave labor replaced in Georgia?

• Landowners shared resources with each other to keep the plantations going until harvest time.
• Large numbers of black Georgians became landowners and hired other black people to work the land.
• Landowners allowed people with no land to grow crops on their acreage for a share of those crops.
• Many landowners sold their land, moved north, and gave up farming because there was no labor available.

Which is a correct statement about the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision of 1857?

• The decision pleased both the North and South.
• Abolitionists considered the decision a great victory.
• Slaves were classified as property without human rights.
• Expansion of slavery into new territories was declared illegal.

Which statement is correct about agriculture in Georgia after the Civil War?

• All plantations were burned and destroyed by the war.
• Freed slaves were given portions of plantation land to own.
• Plantation owners had land but little money to pay people to work it.
• Industries quickly hired all available workers, leaving few workers in agriculture.

Why was Georgia often referred to as the "heart of the Confederacy" during the Civil War?

• Georgia was the site of most of the military victories.
• Georgia's soldiers fought harder than those from other Confederate states.
• Robert E. Lee once referred to Georgia by that term and the name remained.
• Georgia had the best railroads and more industry than other Confederate states.

What was the ultimate impact of sharecropping on freed black people in the South after the Civil War?

• It allowed the majority of black people to climb out of poverty.
• It kept most black people impoverished and in debt to white landowners.
• It forced white landowners to sell off most of their land to black farmers.
• It allowed black farmers to buy land and gave them long-term security.

People who opposed slavery were known as:

• Confederates
• Sharecroppers
• Secessionists
• Abolitionists

Abolitionists

• Compromise of 1850
• Missouri Compromise
• Great Compromise
• 3/5 Compromise

During the 1850s, whose freedom was addressed by the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark case that denied rights to African Americans?

• Harriet Tubman
• Henry McNeal Turner
• Dred Scott
• Homer Plessy