Terms and Definitions
Slavery
States' Rights and Nullification
Compromise of 1850
Georgia Platform
100

The term used during the American Civil War when referring to the northern states.

What is the Union?

100

The term given to a person who was opposed to slavery.

What is an abolitionist?

100

A belief that the needs and interests of one region were more important than the nation's needs.

What is nationalism?

100

Missouri entered the Union (United States) as this type of state (slave and/or free).

What is a slave state?

100
The term is used to describe the main goals and ideas that a candidate is supporting that is running for office.
What is a platform?
200

The term used during the American Civil War to refer to the southern states.

What is the Confederacy?

200

During this period in Georgia's history, slaves were not allowed by law.

What is the Trustee Period?

200
The belief that the nation's needs were more important than the issues in individual states.

What is nationalism?

200

Name the state admitted to the Union (the United States) along with Missouri as part of the Missouri Compromise.

What is Maine?

200
The region of the United States that purchased most of the cotton grown and harvested in Georgia in the early to mid-1800s.

What is the North?

300
The U.S. President at the time of the start of the American Civil War.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

300

The invention that helped to make cotton 'king' of the South.

What is the cotton gin?

300

The region that felt that states' rights were more important than the needs of the nation.

What is the South?

300

Name the type of state California became as part of the Compromise of 1850 (slave and/or free)

What is a free state?

300

The prominent Georgia politician that reminded the legislators that they depended on the North to buy the cotton grown in the South.

Who was Alexander Stephens?

400

This term refers to the era or period just before the American Civil War.

What is Antebellum?

400

The types of businesses that could be found in the northern states.

What are manufacturing and factories?

400

The term used to describe when a state wants to void a law that has been passed by the U.S. Congress.

What is nullification?

400

As part of the Compromise of 1850, the slave trade was abolished in this important U.S. city.

What is Washington, D.C.?
400
The decision made by the legislators about voting FOR or AGAINST the Compromise of 1850.
What is voted in SUPPORT or FOR the Compromise of 1850?
500

This term refers to any conflict between two groups within one nation.

What is civil war?

500

These people made up as much as 86% of the residents in the coastal counties of Georgia.

What are slaves?

500

This region of the country leading up the Civil War wanted the U.S. Congress to place more tariffs on goods coming into the country.

What is the North?

500

As part of the Compromise of 1850, new punishments were put into place for run-away slaves and those who helped them. This was part of a particular act/law.

What was the Fugitive Slave Law?

500

The effect of Georgia supporting the Compromise of 1850.

What is to remain IN the Union and prevent a civil war for another 10 years.

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