The Civil War in Georgia

The President of the US during the Civil War

• Alexander Stephens

• Abraham Lincoln

• Alec Baldwin

• William T. Sherman

The right of a state to void or not follow a federal law is

• States' Rights

• Compromise of 1850

• Tariff

• Nullification

The first state to secede from the United States was

• Georgia

• South Carolina

• Virginia

• Alabama

The belief that a state had a right to nullify federal laws, secede from the Union, and decide whether to allow slavery in the state

• States' Rights

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Nullification

Southern states opposed the Compromise of 1850 because

• California was admitted as a free state which gave the North control of the Congress

• It closed western territories to the spread of slavery

• It allowed popular sovereignty to decide the slavery issue in the western territories

• It created a tariff on foreign goods

In the Dred Scott Case, the US Supreme Court ruled that

• Slaves who lived in free states were free

• Slaves were not citizens, but could sue their masters in federal court

• Slaves were property, without rights, and could be taken anywhere

• Runaway slaves in the Northern states had to be returned to their masters

What event led Georgia and other southern states to secede from the US?

• Dred Scott Decision

• Fighting in Kansas between slave and free setters

• Compromise of 1850

• 1860 Presidential election of Lincoln

What crop kept slavery a necessity to Georgia's economy and the Southern way of life?

• Tobacco

• Rice

• Cotton

• Indigo

Which group in Georgia wanted to remain as part of the Union?

• Southern Democrats in GA; they believed the Republican Party would take over the Confederacy

• Manufacturers and factory owners; they relied on coal and steel from the north

• Large plantation owners; they depended on northern markets to sell their cotton crops

• Small farmers from the northern counties; they were less invested in the debate over slavery

Agreement that admitted California as a free state, allowed popular sovereignty to decide the slave issue in the western territories, and issued a strong Fugitive Slave Law

• Nullification

• States' Rights

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise