SS8H5a Civil War

Due to cash crops like cotton, the South

depended on which of the following to

maintain its economy?

• slavery

• secession

• state's rights

• nullification

The decisiveness over whether a state

can fully govern what goes occurs inside

their own state borders is BEST

summarized as which of the following

pre-Civil War concerns?

• slavery

• secession

• state's rights

• nullification

Who would MOST LIKELY have made

this statement in the mid-1800s? Why?

"The real issue at hand is states'

rights. The federal government

does not have the power to tell us

what we can and cannot do; our

voices should matter too."

• A Southern plantation owner, because

  plantation owners were worried that the

  federal government was trying to outlaw

  slavery

• A Northern abolitionist, because

  abolitionists believed that the federal

  government should do more to halt the

  spread of slavery

• A Southern miner, because miners believed that the federal government should do more to remove American

  Indians from land that contained valuable minerals

• A Northern factory owner, because factory owners were concerned that the

  federal government would allow states to impose taxes on goods from other

  states

Which of the following actions was the

immediate cause of the Civil War?

• secession over border disputes

• secession over international tariffs

• secession over the issue of slavery

• secession over the Missouri

  Compromise

Which was an agreement that admitted

California as a free state, and issued a

strong Fugitive Slave Law?

• Nullification

• Missouri Compromise

• State's Rights

• Tariffs

• Compromise of 1850

Prior to the Civil War, which of the

following did Georgia willingly accept

even though it caused division in the

South?

• state's rights

• Fugitive Slave Laws

• Georgia Platform

• Compromise of 1850

The importance of the Georgia Platform

was:

• It paved the way for Georgia and other Southern states to secede

• It helped to establish the Democratic Party's control of GA politics

• It conditionally accepted the

  Compromise of 1850, avoiding

  secession

• It led to the formation of the Confederate

  States of America

Which of the following BEST describes

how the Georgia Platform on the

Compromise of 1850 could be said to

have contributed to the eventual

outbreak of the Civil War?

• The Georgia Platform caused widespread anger in the North and increased its willingness to eventually fight the South.

• The Georgia Platform caused more

  Southerners to believe that they could

  force the federal government to accept

  demands about slavery.

• The Georgia Platform put the South in a position in which further free states

  joining the Union would mean seceding or accepting the inevitability of abolition.

• The Georgia Platform offered only a temporary compromise which did little to address the fundamental disagreements over slavery and states’ rights between the North and the South.

Both abolitionists and those who

supported popular sovereignty were

angered because by the ruling in the

Dred Scott case. Which of the following

summarizes the Supreme Court’s

decision? Choose the BEST TWO

answers.

• slaves can decide for themselves

  whether to reside in free territory

• slaves can sue for their freedom

  because of the Fifth Amendment

• slaves had no right to sue

• slavery violated the Missouri

  Compromise

• slaveholders can keep their slaves in any state because slaves were

  considered property

The right of a state to void, or not to

follow a federal law

• nullification

• state's rights

• popular sovereignty

• Compromise of 1850