GA Studies Unit 5 Quiz 1 (H5a)

The Georgia Platform succeeded in saving the Union from collapse by

• balancing the number of slave states with the number of free states.

• establishing the guidelines for the creation of the Compromise of 1850.

• threatening a Civil War if the North decided to secede from the Union.

• quieting radicals who wanted to secede after the Compromise of 1850.

This abolitionist was executed in 1859 after leading a failed attempt at armed slave insurrection at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.

• Dred Scott

• John Brown

• Eli Whitney

• Abraham Lincoln

This was an agreement that California would be admitted to the Union, the slave trade in the District of Columbia would be restricted, and the Fugitive Slave Law would be enforced.

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Georgia Platform

• Missouri Compromise

In 1854 Stephen A. Douglas introduced this to the Senate, to allow states to enter the Union with or without slavery.

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Georgia Platform

The Nullification Crisis of 1832 centered around

• southern opposition to tariffs.

• the annexation of Texas.

• decreased trade with France.

• Jackson's War on the Bank.

Which term refers to the idea that the Southern states could secede from the Union if they disagreed with Federal policies

• Manifest Destiny

• Imperialism

• Sectionalism

• States' Rights

Which of these conclusions can be drawn for information in the chart?

• Enslaved people in the North had better lives than those living in the South.

• The South had more enslaved people living in rural areas than the North.

• The South had a proportionally higher concentration of white slave owners

• People who were enslaved could more easily become free in the North than in the South.

How did the Missouri Compromise deal with the issue of slavery?

• It stated that all future states would be required to be slave states except for Missouri.

• It made the Mississippi River the divding line between slave states and free states.

• It required all territories to abolish slavery before becoming states.

• It prohibited slavery in most of the former Louisiana Territory except for Missouri.

In the 1850s, tension was growing among the states and when_________was elected president in 1860, the

stage was set for the Civil War.  Late in 1860 and early in 1861,  _______formally seceded from the union,

starting the bloodiest war in American history.

The political conflict in surrounding the Compromise of 1850 showed that people in the United States

• were consumed by the desire to "get rich quick" from gold mining

• believed Native Americans should be forced to live on reservations.

• were opposed to westward expansion.

• continued to be divided on the issue of slavery.