Causes of the Civil War

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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?

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

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Why is the Compromise of 1850 considered a failure?

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Civil War began just 10 years later

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

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

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

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states' rights

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What led to increased tensions between the north and the south during the middle 1800s? Options: the Monroe Doctrine, decreased demand for cotton in Great Britain, the struggles of the northern economy

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