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H6UT
H6 Unit Test for Georgia Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Missouri Compromise allowed what state to enter the Union as free? | Maine |
| What are three causes of the Civil War? | Sectionalism, Slavery, States' rights. |
| States' Rights is... | the belief in the right to have a say-so in laws/policies affecting your state. |
| Impact of Compromise of 1850 on US History: | Allowed a large state (California) to enter as a free state. |
| Georgian who became vise president of the Confederacy: | Alexander Stephens |
| After Lincoln's election (1860) what Georgian called for Georgia to remain in Union: | Alexander Stephens |
| Georgia Platform: | Supported Compromise of 1850. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act changed Missouri Compromise by... | permitted slavery North of Missouri's southern border. |
| Lincoln's official policy on slavery during election of 1860: | Slavery should not be allowed to spread into new territories. |
| Dred Scott decision - | slaves were classified as property without human and citizenship rights. |
| Event that led to special legislative session in Georgia to consider seceding from Union | Lincolns presidential election. |
| Two Civil War campaigns fought in Georgia: | Atlanta Campaign and Savannah Campaign. |
| General who led the "March to the Sea" | William Sherman |
| Union soldiers did not burn Savannah because - | $28 million worth of cotton. |
| Why did Sherman destroy civilian infrastructure in the "March to the Sea"? | end civilian support for the war thus shortening the war. |
| Famous confederate prison in Georgia: | Andersonville |
| Chickamauga was important to North and South because: | It was a railroad center. |
| the Emancipation Proclamation was concession to south because: | it allowed south to keep slaves if they stopped fighting. |
| bloodiest one day battle of Civil War: | Antietam. |
| Gettysburg: | turning point in war |
| The Union blockades purpose was | to stop southerner's from receiving/sending supplies or goods. |
| Former confederate (not high-ranking) soldiers could be pardoned by | promising to defend the US Constitution. |
| What was part of Andrew Johnson's reconstruction plan | States had to approve the 13th Amendment. |
| Under the radical reconstruction plan ... | southern states had to ratify the 14th amendment to rejoin the Union. |
| Thirteenth Amendment - | abolished slavery. |
| Fifteenth Amendment - | gave black men the right to vote. |
| Reconstruction Impacted the South by | South had to grant black citizenship. |
| The Freedman's Bureau purpose was to - | help former slaves and poor whites get jobs, clothing, and food. |
| Sharecroppers - | owned nothing |
| tenant farmers - | owned farm animals and equipment. |
| Georgia Act of 1869 | Federal legislation returning Georgia to military control because of KKK terrorism against freedman. |
| Henry McNeal Turner was expelled from his seat in the Georgia Legislature because... | according to the Constitution he did not have the right to hold political office. |
| Someone who supported Lincoln's plan for reconstruction would have thought that... | the Northern policies should help the South recover as quickly as possible. |
| Sharecropping in the South after the Civil War is characterized by | most sharecropper's remaining in a cycle of poverty. |
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