State Rights
Georgia Platform
Nullification
Compromise of 1850
Dred Scott Case and the Abraham Lincoln Election
100
Each state was given a right to decide?
If slavery was allowed or not?
100
What was the official decision that helped keep Georgia in the Union?
Georgia Platform.
100
Southerners were angry and ________
Opposed the tariff
100
What Compromise brought California in as a free state and passed the Fugitive Slave Act for the slave states.
The Compromise of 1850
100
Who Was Dred Scott?
Dred Scott was an enslaved man who lived in free states and felt like he should be free.
200
What happened as a result of allowing states to decide if slavery was allowed.
Northern and Southern states' "divided".
200
Who wrote the Georgia Platform?
Alexander Stephens and Georgia politicians.
200
What year did South Carolina invoke the doctrine of nullification?
1832
200
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
200
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.
300
Amount of power a state government has in relation to the power held by the federal government when making decisions.
What are "States' Rights"?
300
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.
300
To avoid nullification______ lowered the tariff in 1833.
Congress
300
When California became a free state there were no___
New slave states
300
Those opposing slavery joined the
Republican party.
400
Many people in the South believed that
States should choose which federal laws to obey.
400
Stephens and Toombs were pro-slavery, what does pro-slavery mean?
For slavery.
400
Nullification means to____
Make something legal without a say from the citizens.
400
The compromise paid Texas $10million for giving up its claim to____
New Mexico.
400
How was the Democratic Party split during the Election of 1860?
The Democratic Party split between the North and South. There was a Democratic candidate for the North and one for the South.
500
Many Southerners felt that
Any state could secede from the Union.
500
What happened in December 1850?
The adoption of the Georgia Platform.
500
Which Vice President said that any state could nullify any federal law by holding a convention about it.
Vice President Calhoun
500
The compromise did not continue the____ in Washington D.C.
Slave trade
500
What was Lincoln’s goal?
His goal was to keep the Union together and to keep slavery from spreading to new states.