Antebellum/Civil War

What was the final event that led to the southern states seceeding from the Union?

• Kansas-Neberska Act

• Election of Lincoln as president

• Dred Scot Decision

• Georgia Platform

What is the argument that if it is not in the U.S. Constitution the states have the power to decide the issue?

• separation of powers

• national rights

• state's rights

• people's rights

What was the biggest problem in the country that led to the Civil War?

• slavery

• tariffs

• cotton production

• nullification

What is the term that means a state is leaving the Union?

• cession

• regression

• deflection

• secession

Which area of the country would have favored the Dred Scott decision?

• north

• south

• west

• all areas were happy with the decision

What Supreme Court ruling said slaves were not citizens and could not sue in a court of law?

• Dred Scott Decision

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

What proclamation asked the north to support the Fugitive Slave Act and stop trying to ban slavery in the territories?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Georgia Act

• Reconstruction Proclamation

• Georgia Platform

What was the big advantage for the south in the Compromise of 1850?

• slavery was abolished

• Fugitive Slave Act was passed by Congress

• Oregon became a slave state

• slavery was banned in the territories

What was the name for the infamous prisoner of war camp located near Americas Georgia?

• Camp Elmira

• Andersonville

• Camp Douglas

• Camp Lookout

What Union strategy helped prevent the south from selling cotton to European countries in exchange for weapons and supplies?

• Lay Waste to the Land strategy

• Schlieffin Plan

• Union Blockade of southern ports

• Charleston Plan