Civil War Quiz

The system in which individuals (primarily African Americans) were owned by others and forced to work without pay, often on plantations in the South.

• Slavery

• Plantation

• States Rights

• Abraham Lincoln

The belief that individual states have the right to govern themselves and make decisions, especially concerning issues like slavery, without interference from the federal government.

• States Rights

• Slavery

• Union

• Secession

The act of withdrawing from the United States, which Georgia did in 1861

• Secession

• Southern State

• Civil War

• March to the sea

The idea that states could ignore or invalidate federal laws they disagreed with

(a)  

The name for the United States government and Northern states during the Civil War

(a)  

President Lincoln's 1863 order freeing slaves in rebellious states

(a)  

A political statement issued by Georgia’s leaders in 1850 in support of the Compromise of 1850, which included strong support for slavery in the South.

• Georgia Platform

• Votes for Women

• voters rights

• Lyndon B Johnson

Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th President of the United States in 1860, largely on a platform that opposed the expansion of slavery into new territories.

(a)  

A U.S. Supreme Court case in 1857 in which the Court ruled that African Americans were not citizens and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories.

• Dread Scott Case

• Plessy V Ferguson

• Brown V Board of Education

• Nullification

The concept that a state could invalidate (or nullify) a federal law it deemed unconstitutional.

(a)