Georgia Milestone Review from the Civil War thru Reconstruction

The ____________________, the deadliest war in the U.S., was fought between the North and the South.

• American Civil War

• American Revolutionary War

• American Indian Wars

• French and Indian War

Label the two sides of the American Civil War:

• North (Patriots)

  South (Tories)

• North (Union)

  South (Confederacy)

• North (Patriots)

  South (Confederacy)

• North (Union)

  South (Tories)

What were the THREE causes of the American Civil War?

• Slavery

  States’ Rights

  Economics

• Abolition

  States’ Rights

  Economics

• Slavery

  States’ Rights

  Nullification

• Slavery

  Federalism

  Nullification

Southern states (especially in SC) believed that states should have the right to decide which federal laws they should or should not follow, which was called the ____________________.

• Regionalism

• secession

• Nullification Act

• Nationalism

The loyalty to a particular region is called _________.

• Nationalism

• Federalism

• Patriotism

• Regionalism

The loyalty to a particular nation is called ________.

• Nationalism

• Patriotism

• Regionalism

• Federalism

South Carolina was the first state to leave the Union, which is called _________.

• Federalism

• Secession

• Abolition

• Confederation

The Compromise of ______ added California as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act was approved, enacted popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico territory, and the slave trade was ended in Washington, D.C.

• 1803

• 1783

• 1850

• 1830

The _______________ was a law that made it illegal to help runaway slaves and allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and returned to their owner.

• Tea Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision

• Fugitive Slave Act

The political stance that Georgia would remain in the Union only if the Fugitive Slave Act was followed and if they stopped banning slavery in new territories was called the ___________.

• Georgia Platform

• Dred Scott Decision

• Missouri Compromise

• Georgia Plan