Compromise of 1850/Georgia Platform/Dred Scott

Which of the following was NOT a part of the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?

• Free African Americans were granted US citizenship.

• Slaves could not be citizens of individual states.

• The Missouri Compromise was ruled unconstitutional.

• Living in a free state did not make a person free.

Why was the Compromise of 1850 considered a failure?

• The American Civil War began ten years later

• Jim Crow laws were enacted in the South.

• Women still could not vote fifty years later

• Military governments were installed in the South.

How did the government of Georgia help delay the outbreak of the Civil War?

• by accepting the election of President Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and convincing other Southern states to do the same

• by approving the Compromise of 1850 through the Georgia Platform and convincing other Southern states to do the same

• by approving the Kansas-Nebraska Act through the Georgia Platform and convincing other Southern states to do the same

• by accepting the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case and convincing other Southern states to do the same

The adoption of the Georgia Platform helped delay the Civil War by accepting the Compromise of 1850. What was one reason the state adopted the Georgia Platform?

• The state wanted federal troops to help force American Indians off of their traditional homelands in Georgia

• The federal government promised to raise tariffs on European goods to protect Georgia's industrial economy.

• The federal government promised to limit immigration to help unemployed men and women in the South find work.

• The state supported the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act that banned northern states from protecting escaped slaves.

The Supreme Court's 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford was one of its most unpopular. Just eleven years after it was issued, the decision was effectively overturned by the Fourteenth Amendment. What did the Court conclude in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford ?

• Slavery could not be abolished by amending the US Constitution.

• Children of freed slaves were the property of the original slaveholder.

• Neither free nor enslaved African Americans could become US citizens.

• Slaves could only buy their freedom with money they earned themselves.

What did the Supreme Court conclude in Dred Scott v. Sandford ?

• Neither African Americans slaves nor their descendants could be citizens.

• Slavery could not be abolished through an amendment to the Constitution.

• Enslaved people became free when they entered a free state or territory.

• Racial segregation of public facilities was legal if the facilities were equal.