What legislation allowed Georgia to push the Creek and Cherokee out of the state and take their land?
The Indian Removal Act of 1830
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Explain the Missouri Compromise
It maintained a balance of power in the Senate between slave and free states.
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What was the biggest difference between sharecroppers and tenant farmers?
the way they paid the landowner after the harvest
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What was the 14th amendment?
it gave citizenship and equal protection under the law to people who had been enslaved
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Why was Henry McNeal Turner expelled from his seat in GA General Assembly?
He did not have the right to hold office according to the state constitution
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After the French and Indian War what two countries controlled most what is now North America?
England and Spain
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Explain the Compromise of 1850
California entered the Union as a free state with no slavery and the south received the Fugitive Slave Act
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What were some similarities between sharecroppers and tenant farmers?
They usually could not read or write,
They provided their labor in exchange for land to farm,
They used credit at land owner's general store and were in debt
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Who was most likely to punish the former Confederate states for destruction caused by the Civil War?
Radical Republicans
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How did Congress stop Georgia from restricting the rights of freedmen?
by passing the 14th amendment
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What natural border did the Proclamation Line of 1763 follow?
The Appalachian Mountains
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Explain the Fugitive Slave Act
It required the return of runaway slaves to their owners
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Why were freedmen restricted from voting, marrying a white person, serving on a jury, testifying in court, and imprisoned if unemployed?
To prevent them from exercising their civil rights
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Why did Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan fail?
he was assassinated before it could be carried out
300
In the beginning the Ku Klux Klan was a social club for Confederate veterans but soon became???
an organization to restore political power to the Southern Democrats
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What military strategy increased the economic importance of Atlanta during the Civil War?
the Union Blockade
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What was unique about the presidential election of 1860?
It was the first time a candidate won the election with votes from only one section of country
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What describes the term "separate but equal"?
Idea that segregation was acceptable as long as public facilities were the same.
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What amendment abolished (ended) slavery in the United States?
13th
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What Constitutional amendment did the KKK in Georgia ignore by trying to prevent freedmen from voting ?
15th amendment
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What was unique about Sherman's March to the Sea?
Total Warfare-it targeted civilian as well as military property
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What was the political issue before the Civil War that differed greatly between the North and the South in their views of power that the federal government should have over the state?
states' rights
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What organization was created by the federal government to help freedmen adjust to their new life (freedom)?
The Freedmen's Bureau
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What amendment guaranteed Black men the right to be U.S. citizens?
14th
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What was the biggest difference between Abraham Lincoln's and Andrew Johnson's reconstruction plans?
Lincoln's plan was simple and kind to the South; Johnson's plan punished the South