SS8H5: Civil War in Georgia

What was the Underground Railroad?

• A place where slaves were sold
• It was a railroad that was underground and carried slaves to freedom.
• A network slaves used to get to freedom.
• A smooth form of transportation.

As a result of the Missouri Compromise,

• slavery was banned north of Missouri's southern border.
• slavery was allowed in all states east of Missouri.
• slavery was banned in all territories west of Missouri.
• slavery was allowed north of Missouri's southern border.

The Georgia Platform was a statement supporting

• states' rights.
• popular sovereignty.
• the Compromise of 1850.
• slavery throughout the United States.

Where did the bloodiest one-day battle of the Civil War take place?

• Shiloh
• Antietam
• Vicksburg
• Gettysburg

What contributed to the lack of success of the Union Blockade?

• The South had a superior navy.
• Blockade runners slipped through the blockade.
• Great Britain found other ways to trade with the South.
• The Union did not have enough ships to enforce the blockade.

Atlanta's military importance to the Confederacy was that it was the 

• capital of the Confederacy.
• most populated city in the Confederacy.
• industrial and transportation center of the Confederacy.
• home to the largest number of slaves in the Confederacy.

What Union general led the northern army on its "March to the Sea" and saw to it that much of Georgia's capital resources were destroyed?

• Robert E. Lee
• Ulysses S. Grant
• William T. Sherman
• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

Where was the notorious Confederate prison in Georgia?

• Fulton
• Alcatraz
• Belle Isle
• Andersonville

Many southern states believe that the state should be the final authority over slavery. This belief is an example of

• abolition
• sectionalism
• states' rights
• popular sovereignty

When Abraham Lincoln was elected president, many southern states, including Georgia, left the union, or _______.

• nullified
• seceded
• exercised sectionalism
• exercised states' rights