SS8H5 GMAS PREP

The most controversial issue dividing northerners and southerners during the 1800s was the issue of _____?

• Slavery

• States rights

• Nullification

• Popular Sovereignty

The idea that a state can declare a federal law invalid and not abide by it is known as ...

• Secession

• regionalism

• abolitionist manifesto

• nullification doctrine

What compromise established a strict fugitive slave law?

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Dred Scott Cass

Which compromise abolished slave trade in Washington D.C.?

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Dred Scott Case

The Georgia Platform is related to the ____________ and stated GA would leave the Union if the _____________ was NOT followed.

• 1. Missouri Compromise

  2. Fugitive Slave Act

• 1. Compromise of 1850

  2. Fugitive Slave Act

• 1. Fugitive Slave Act

  2. Compromise of 1850

• 1. Dred Scott Case

  2. Missouri Compromise

Supreme Court decision ruling that since slaves were not citizens, they could not sue in court

• Homer Plessy
• Dred Scott
• Worchester vs. GA

Republican candidate and victor in the election of 1860

• Stephen Douglas
• John Breckenridge
• Abraham Lincoln

What did South Carolina do after Lincoln's win?

• seceded from the Union

• Fired on Fort Sumter.

• Nullified the Tariff

• Declared War on the Union.

8. What was the first official conflict of the civil war?

• Battle of Chickamauga

• Bombing of Fort Sumter

• Battle of Bull Run

• Antietam

Issued by Abraham Lincoln, this stated that slaves in territories rebelling against the Union were free and more importantly made Slavery the central issue of the War?

• The Declaration of War

• The Slavery Proclamation

• The Civil Rights Declaration

• The Emancipation Proclamation