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Compromises
Important People
Major Events that led to the Civil War
Westward Expansion & Native Americans
Warm-Ups
100
The line drawn in the Missouri Compromise that separates the free and slave states in the Louisiana Purchase territory.
36'30 line
100
75% of the white population were these subsistence farmers
What is yeoman farmers
100
Helped Northern industries by making imported goods more expensive.
What is a tariff
100
the way Native American land EAST of the Oconee River was distributed to white settlers
What is the headright system
100
a city that has its own government
What is a municipality
200
The state that enters the United States as a free state for the Union in the Compromise of 1850?
What is California?
200
Created the "New South" phrase and encouraged industry to come to the South after the Civil War
What is Henry Grady
200
The Supreme Court case that declared slaves to NOT be citizens and therefore, are NOT allowed to sue in court.
What is the Dred Scott Decision
200
Discovered in Dahlonega, Georgia. It led to the final removal of the Cherokee from Georgia
What is gold.
200
Run by a Board of Commissioners
What is a county
300
The two territories that now will be decided by popular sovereignty to determine slave or free according to the Compromise of 1850?
What is New Mexico and Utah territories
300
Signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830
What is Andrew Jackson
300
The event that finally led seven southern states to secede from the Union.
What is the Election of 1860
300
the new western boundary in Georgia after the Yazoo Land Fraud.
What is the Chattahoochee River
300
the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate (for one day)
What is Rebecca Latimer Felton
400
Georgia supports the Compromise of 1850
What is the Georgia Platform
400
Supporter of the Georgia Platform and against secession
What is Alexander Stephens
400
The abolitionist who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin." This increased the abolitionist movement in the north.
What is Harriett Beecher Stowe
400
the major railroad company in Georgia in the first half of the 1800's.
What is the Western and Atlantic
400
A mayor who acts as a figurehead in the government
What is a weak mayor
500
Eliminate the slave trade in Washington D.C.
What is a northern benefit found in the Compromise of 1850?
500
The Georgia governor immediately before and during the Civil War
What is Joseph Brown
500
This repealed the Missouri Compromise and opened those territories to popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
500
This person signed the Treaty of New York ceding all the Creek land east of the Oconee River.
What is Alexander McGillivray
500
Atlanta has the type of government
What is strong mayor-council form of government