SS8H5 Civil War

Which describes the relationship between the Compromise of 1850 and the Georgia Platform?

• They are the same event just known by two different names in Georgia.

• Both events were trying to resolve the differences people had over the results of the Dred Scott case.

• The Georgia Platform, which upheld Georgia’s right to slavery, led to a need for the Compromise of 1850.

• It was the Georgia Platform, many believe, that saved the union because it showed southern support for the Compromise of 1850.

Which term is used when a state attempts to ignore or refuse to accept a law from the Federal government?

• nullification

• compromise

• emancipation

• sharecropping

Which statement BEST describes the outcome of the Dred Scott case?

• The New York Court system changed the laws in Missouri

• Missouri granted Scott the right to be free

• The U.S. Supreme Court decided against Scott

• The U.S. Supreme Court sent the case back to the Missouri Supreme Court

Southern states considered the Dred Scott case a victory because according the decision in the case slaves were

• treated like all other citizens.

• considered to be property without rights.

• to be released within the next fifty years.

• able to be kept as slaves in every state of the country.

What was ONE of the key issues that led to the Civil War?

• land lotteries

• states' rights

• The Townsend Acts

• taxation without representation

Which practices were used to keep freed slaves under control of local landowners after the Civil War?

• reconstruction and the 13th amendment

• blocakades and secession

• nullification and slavery

• sharecropping and tenant farming

What does the term "secession" describe

• the end of slavery

• the act of a state leaving the Union

• the right of the federal government to collect taxes

• the nullification of tarriffs

After Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1960, which state(s) withdrew from the Union?

• North Carolina and South Carolina

• South Carolina and Georgia

• Georgia and Alabama

• Alabama and Mississippi

The Nullification Crisis of 1832 was centered around ...

• The annexation of Texas

• The southern opposition to the tariffs

• Decreased trade with France

• Jackson's war on the banks

Which TWO were effects of the Emancipation Proclamation?

• It allowed the Union army to recruit African Americans

• It ended slavery in the North and South

• it justified the Confederacy's firing the first shot in the Civil War

• It led to European nations helping the Confederacy during the Civil War