Georgia Studies Unit 4 - The Civil War - Study Guide

States’ rights was a pre-Civil War concern. States’ rights refers to:

• Whether a state can govern what occurs inside their own state borders.

• Whether or not slavery should be legal

• Both

• Neither

Answer explanation

States' rights was an ongoing concern from the Articles of Confederation.

General Sherman captured which major railroad hub?

• Chattanooga

• Andersonville

• Atlanta

• Savannah

Answer explanation

While Savannah was a major sea port for transporting goods, Atlanta was the railroad hub

What was the most significant result of the fall of Atlanta?

• So many soldiers were killed

• People lost their farms and their personal property

• The railroads were destroyed at a major hub

• Sherman’s men took all the supplies.

Though it caused great division in the south, which of the following did Georgia willingly accept?

• Georgia Platform

• Nullification

• Compromise of 1850

• States’ rights

Which of the following stated that Georgia would officially accept the Compromise of 1850?

• Fugitive slave law

• Stephen’s Law

• Georgia Platform

• Nullification

Why did the South depend on slavery to maintain it’s economy?

• Cash crops like cotton

• Secession

• Compromise of 1850

• States’ rights

Which of the following were provisions in the Georgia Platform?

• Georgia would accept the Compromise of 1850

• Resist Congress’s efforts to outlaw slavery

• Support slavery in new territories

• All of the above

The Georgia Platform on the Compromise of 1850 could be said to have contributed to the eventual outbreak of the civil war because:

• It caused much anger in the North

• It was only a temporary compromise

• It did not address states’ rights

• It made Southerners believe that they could force the government to allow slavery.

The Dred Scott decision can best be summarized by which of the following?

• Slaves had no right to sue

• Slaveholders can keep their slaves in any state

• Slaves were considered property

• All of the above

• none of the above

Which of the following was a direct cause of Georgia’s secession from the United States?

• South Carolina returned to the Union

• Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860

• Jefferson Davis was elected in 1861

• None of the above