Causes of the Civil War

Why did Georgia introduce the Georgia Platform suggesting to other southern states to accept the Compromise of 1850 and allow California to become a free state even though it would throw off the balance between free and slave states?

• The Georgia Platform was an elaborate stage politicians could use to make speeches in Atlanta

• Georgia would support California becoming a state if the northern states would enforce the Fugitive Slave Act

• The Georgia Platform was an agreement that Abraham Lincoln would be added to the ballot for the 1852 Presidential election

• The Georgia Platform stated that Georgia would support California becoming a state if Georgia could get a percentage of the gold mined in the new state

Why is the Compromise of 1850 considered a failure?

• Women still could not vote fifty years later

• Jim Crow laws were enacted in the south

• Civil War began just 10 years later

• Military governments were installed across the south

What was Andrew Jackson's reason for imposing tariffs on imported textile goods that caused the nullification crisis?

• He hated Europeans as much as he hated Indians

• He wanted to balance trade between northern manufacturers and southern cotton producers

• He hoped it would increase cotton sales for the southern states

• He hoped it would improve relations with the US's European allies

What was the reason states thought they could "nullify" or ignore a federal law like an import tariff?

• voting reforms

• the national back

• the spoils system

• states' rights

What led to increased tensions between the north and the south during the middle 1800s?

• the Monroe Doctrine

• continued westward expansion of the country and the question about slavery in those new territories

• decreased demand for cotton in Great Britain

• the struggles of the northern economy