GA Civil War

Southerners’ belief that states should have higher authority than the federal government was called:

• National rights

• Confederate rights

• States’ rights

• Popular sovereignty

The Missouri Compromise was an agreement between the northern and southern states about

• The right to own slaves.

• Slavery in new states.

• Slaves’ rights.

• The obligation to return runaway slaves

Under this compromise, if a slave state was added to the Union, a free state or territory must also be added:

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Georgia Platform

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

The Fugitive Slave Act was added to this compromise to please Southern states:

• Georgia Platform

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Which law allowed popular sovereignty in several U.S. territories?

• Georgia Platform

• Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Abolitionists wanted to

• Get rid of slavery

• Limit slavery to large plantations

• Feed the hungry.

• Give women the right to vote

The main focus of the Georgia Platform was on

• Slavery.

• Tariffs.

• Money.

• Popular sovereignty.

Dred Scott was a

• College professor.

• First African American mayor of Atlanta.

• A slaved who sued for his freedom.

• A Revolutionary War hero.

How many states seceded from the Union during the Civil War?

• 6

• 8

• 11

• 13

Why was the Union victory at Antietam important?

• It stopped Confederate forces from

• It cut the Confederate forces off from their supplies

• It put an end to the war.

• The Confederate forces lost thousands more soldiers than the Union forces.