Unit 4 Civil War in Georgia Review

This document was GA's statement that they would ratify the Compromise of 1850 even though they really did not like it and felt it did not favor the South.

• Election of 1860

• GA Platform

• Nullification

• states' rights

This issue involved tariffs and the South's feelings about collecting the tariffs on imports.

• states' rights

• nullification

• slavery

• election of 1860

The North believed laws passed by Congress applied to the whole country; however, the South believed that states should be able to choose and only follow laws they decided were in their best interest.

• states' rights

• nullification

• GA Platform

• Dred Scott decision

This issue involved whether one man has the right to own another. The North wanted this practice outlawed in the U.S., but the South felt they could not survive without it.

• nullification

• states' rights

• slavery

• Compromise of 1850

A slave sued his master for his freedom after living in 2 free states. The Supreme Court said slaves were not citizens and could not sue their masters.

• states' rights

• Compromise of 1850

• slavery

• Dred Scott decision

This event made the South so angry they decided to secede from the Union. How did a man no one in the South voted for get elected to be president?!

• Election of 1860

• Dred Scott decision

• nullification

• slavery

California was admitted to the Union as a free state, the slave trade was ended in Washington, D.C. and the Fugutive Slave Act was passed.

• states rights'

• Compromise of 1850

• Election of 1860

• nullification

Georgians were asking this question after the election of 1860?

• Which southerners voted for Abraham Lincoln?

• How did he get elected when he's not even from the South?

• Should GA remain in the Union or do we secede?

• If GA secedes, who will our president be?

Alexander Stephens believed that

• Georgia should secede and refuse to acknowledge Abraham Lincoln as their president.

• stay in the Union since Lincoln was constitutionally elected.

• the South should start a war with the North over the issue of slavery.

• Dred Scott had a right to sue his master and be freed.

___________ was the first state to secede from the Union.

• Georgia

• Alabama

• Mississippi

• South Carolina