SS8H5a Review

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Which two issues played the GREATEST roles in causing the Civil War? Options: slavery and states' rights, Manifest Destiny and Indian Removal, the Missouri Compromise and the California Gold Rush, the election of James K. Polk and the Northwest Ordinance

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slavery and states' rights

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A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders

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Fugitive Slave Act

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The idea that a state can declare their own laws is:

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states' rights

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What compromise established a strict fugitive slave law? Options: Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Compromise of 1850

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Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860. He was a

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Republican.

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Shortly after Lincoln’s election, Georgia

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Seceded from the Union.

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The Georgia Platform succeeded in saving the Union from collapse by

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quieting radicals who wanted to secede after the Compromise of 1850.

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Early in his Presidency, Abraham Lincoln declared that his primary goal as President was to:

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preserve the Union.

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Which Supreme Court case would have had the BIGGEST impact on slaves in the United States? Options: Marbury v. Madison (1803), Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

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Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

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Prior to the Civil War, the south's economy was based on ___________, and the north's economy was based on __________.

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agriculture/industry