Each state was given a right to decide?
If slavery was allowed or not?
What was the official decision that helped keep Georgia in the Union?
Georgia Platform.
Southerners were angry and ________
Opposed the tariff
What Compromise brought California in as a free state and passed the Fugitive Slave Act for the slave states.
The Compromise of 1850
Who Was Dred Scott?
Dred Scott was an enslaved man who lived in free states and felt like he should be free.
What happened as a result of allowing states to decide if slavery was allowed.
Who wrote the Georgia Platform?
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Alexander Stephens and Georgia politicians.
What year did South Carolina invoke the doctrine of nullification?
1832
Which part of the U.S was angered by the idea of returning runaway slaves and the possibility that free blacks could be re-enslaved.
Northerners
What did the Supreme Court rule? against him and ended not becoming a free slave.
They ruled against him and ended not becoming a free slave.

Amount of power a state government has in relation to the power held by the federal government when making decisions.
What are "States' Rights"?
What did the Georgia Platform state?
It stated that Georgia would accept the Compromise of 1850 only if the Northern states had to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.
To avoid nullification______ lowered the tariff in 1833.
Congress
When California became a free state there were no___
New slave states
Those opposing slavery joined the
Republican party.
Many people in the South believed that
States should choose which federal laws to obey.
Stephens and Toombs were pro-slavery, what does pro-slavery mean?
For slavery.
Nullification means to____

Make something legal without a say from the citizens.
The compromise paid Texas $10million for giving up its claim to____
New Mexico.
The Democratic Party split between the North and South. There was a Democratic candidate for the North and one for the South.
Many Southerners felt that
Any state could secede from the Union.
What happened in December 1850?
The adoption of the Georgia Platform.
Which Vice President said that any state could nullify any federal law by holding a convention about it.
Vice President Calhoun
The compromise did not continue the____ in Washington D.C.
Slave trade
What was Lincoln’s goal?
His goal was to keep the Union together and to keep slavery from spreading to new states.