SS8H5a Review

Which two issues played the GREATEST roles in causing the Civil War?

• slavery and states' rights
• Manifest Destiny and Indian Removal
• the Missouri Compromise and the California Gold Rush
• the election of James K. Polk and the Northwest Ordinance

A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Dred Scott Case
• Compromise of 1850
• Georgia Platform

The idea that a state can declare their own laws is:

• tariff

• regionalism

• abolitionists

• states' rights

What compromise established a strict fugitive slave law?

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860. He was a  

• A. Democrat.
• B. Confederate. 
• C. Independent.
• D. Republican.

Shortly after Lincoln’s election, Georgia  

• A. Seceded from the Union. 
• B. Seceded from the Confederacy.
• C. Remained loyal to the Union.
• D. Abolished slavery to avoid war.

The Georgia Platform succeeded in saving the Union from collapse by

• quieting radicals who wanted to secede after the Compromise of 1850.
• balancing the number of slave states with the number of free states.
• threatening a Civil War if the North decided to secede from the Union.
• establishing the guidelines for the creation of the Compromise of 1850.

Early in his Presidency, Abraham Lincoln declared that his primary goal as President was to

• preserve the Union.
• encourage sectionalism.
• enforce the Emancipation Proclamation.
• end slavery throughout the entire country.

Which Supreme Court case would have had the BIGGEST impact on slaves in the United States?

• Marbury v. Madison (1803)
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
• Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

Prior to the Civil War, the south's economy was based on ___________, and the north's economy was based on __________.

• industry/agriculture

• agriculture/industry

• industry/tourism

• agriculture/tourism