What happened to the slave population when cotton production increased from 1800-1860?
The slave population increased
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How can state's rights best be defined?
The belief that states could ignore laws if they were harmful to the states
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What was another outcome that resulted from the Compromise of 1850?
California was allowed to enter the Union as a free state
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Why were people from Africa brought to Georgia in the 18th and 19th centuries?
to be forced labor
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What is the early 1800's belief of some people that a state could refuse to enforce a federal law known as?
nullification
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What was the purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act?
require slaves that had runaway to be returned to their owners
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What was the major type of labor used on Georgia's plantations before the Civil War?
Slavery
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What was the purpose of the Missouri Compromise?
To maintain a balance between slave states and free states
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How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act change the Missouri Compromise?
It allowed territories applying for statehood to decide on the issue of slavery through popular sovereignty
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Why are there so few accounts written by slaves about their lives during the antebellum period?
It was illegal for slaves to learn to read and write
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What was a result of the Compromise of 1850?
Runaway slaves had to be returned to their owners
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Why did the U.S. Supreme Court rule against Dred Scott?
because Scott was a slave and he didn't have the right to sue in court
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Which northern state did most blacks from Georgia escape to during the networking of the Underground Railroad leaving the south for freedom to the north?
Pennsylvania
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The Georgia Platform was a statement supporting
the Compromise of 1850
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After Lincoln's election in 1860, which man called for Georgia to remain in the Union?