AKS 35A Civil War and Georgia

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After reading the quote from an 1860 Atlanta newspaper, Who would MOST LIKELY have spoken those words? (SS8H5a)

• northern abolitionist

• slave in the deep South

• southern plantation owner

• free black in a border state

What is the best definition for abolitionists during the antebellum period?

• leaders in the north who called for the Constitution to be abolished

• groups of individuals who wanted to dissolve the Union

• officials who wanted the Dred Scott ruling declared unconstitutional

• people who protested against slavery and fought for it to be made illegal

What did the The Missouri Compromise (1820) and the Compromise of 1850 attempted to do?

• It attempted to preserve the Union and a sense of national unity

• It permitted slavery in new states entering the Union

• It declared that any state which seceded from the Union would be in rebellion

• It banned slavery in new states entering the Union

In December 1850, Georgia held a convention that adopted the Georgia Platform which?

• affirmed Georgia’s commitment to the Union, disregarding other southern states

• accepted the Compromise of 1850 if the North enforced the Fugitive Slave Bill

• proposed immediate secession from the Union in January of 1851

• refused to accept the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850

Staunch southern proponents of states’ rights believed that states had the right of nullification. Which of the following BEST defines nullification?

• call into question a presidential election’s results

• dismiss members of the Supreme Court over disagreement with their rulings

• refuse to enforce a federal law within state limits

• secede from the Union if necessary

The belief that states are sovereign—subject to no higher authority except for powers specifically granted to the national government in the United States Constitution—came to be known as states’ rights. Which of the following WAS NOT a belief of states’ rights supporters?

• The U.S. Constitution was an agreement between independent states, and just as states had joined the Union, they could also secede from it.

• States had the right to allow and promote slavery as a part of the economic system, and the federal government did not have the right to interfere.

• If a state believed that a federal law violated the U.S. Constitution, the state could declare the law “null and void” and refuse to enforce it.

• The creation of the Union by the states was a binding agreement, impossible to break.

Why did people in the North and the South have such different views about slavery?

• Northerners thought slavery was hindering the nation's economic growth.

• The South’s economy depended on slavery; the North’s economy did not.

• Most people in the South believed slavery was morally wrong.

• Southerners wanted to eliminate slavery gradually; northerners all at once.

Why did the North oppose slavery?

• • Viewed slavery as both immoral and a threat to free labor in the western territories

• They thought they were superior to the south.

• The north thought the south was was getting more wealth.

• The north thought the south was horrible.

Many southerners believed which of the following about slavery?

• 1. Slavery was a threat to free labor and immoral.

• 1. Slavery in the south was needed by Northern factory workers.

• 1. Slavery was a necessary good that was constitutionally guaranteed. 

• 1. Slavery was a settled issue as the Constitution guaranteed slavery as a right.

The North was becoming _____ economy based on _________

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