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Unit 6 Test Corrections
Georgia Studies
For each question that you got wrong, write that fact in your own words TWICE. You will get 1 point per
question that is done correctly. Staple your test to your writing.
1. One reason many Georgia plantation owners favored secession was that they feared abolition would end their way of
life.
2. Southerners favor secession rather than accept Abraham Lincoln as president because Lincoln wanted to stop the
spread of slavery.
3. The Dred Scott decision made by the Supreme Court in 1857 declared that slaves were property, were not citizens, and
had no constitutional rights.
4. The vice-president of the Confederacy was Alexander Stephens.
5. The official name of the southern nation was the Confederate States of America.
6. Abolitionists were people who opposed slavery and wanted to end it.
7. The state that was the angriest over Lincoln’s election and the first to secede from the Union was South Carolina.
8. Nullification meant what that states did not to follow national laws they didn’t like.
9. The action of withdrawing from the Union was called secession.
10. The idea that your part of the country was better than other parts of the country was called sectionalism.
11. The idea that states’ rights should be more important that the rights of the Federal (national) government showed that
the south still wanted what type of government a confederation.
12. The agreement that the North and South would let in the slave state of Missouri and the free state of Maine at the
same time was called the Missouri Compromise.
13. The Compromise of 1850 let California come in as a free state, making the north happy. In return, the south got
runaway slaves who were found up north returned to owners in the south.
14. Lincoln’s election of 1860 caused states in the south to start seceding from the Union.
15. Dred Scott’s reason that he should be given his freedom was that he had been taken to a free state and was, therefore,
free.
16. Another name for the United States was the Union.
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17. In the Georgia Platform, Georgia decided not to secede from the Union and accept the Compromise of 1850.
18. The compromise that said no slave states could be formed above the southern border of Missouri at the 36 degree,
30’ parallel was the Missouri Compromise
19. A nickname for the north during the Civil War was the Yankees.
20. The Civil War lasted from 1861-1865.
21. The president of the Confederacy was Jefferson Davis.
22. The president of the Union was Abraham Lincoln.
23. The general in charge of the Confederacy was Robert E. Lee.
24. The General in charge of the Union toward the end of the war was Ulysses S. Grant.
25. The Civil War began when shots were fired at Fort Sumter in the state of South Carolina.
26. The battle of Antietam is famous because it was the bloodiest day of the Civil War
27. In the early years of the Civil War, the main Union military strategy dealing with Georgia was to blockade Georgia’s
ports so goods and supplies could not get in.
28. Sherman’s March to the Sea ended with the capture of Savannah.
29. The north (USA) won the Civil War.
30. The Emancipation Proclamation declared that all slaves in states of rebellion were free.
31. Most of the Civil War was fought in the South.
32. The purpose of Sherman’s march through Georgia was to destroy resources (especially railroads) and Confederate
supplies, and destroy the South’s morale.
33. Andersonville prison held Union prisoners of war.
34. Conditions at Andersonville prison were so bad that the commander of the camp was hung because of the abuse, over
12,000 men died in the camp, and the camp was closed after 14 months.
35. The Anaconda Plan was the strategy the north came up with to surround the Confederacy and cut them off from selling
cotton and getting supplies.
36. Gettysburg was the true turning point of the war and the bloodiest (3 day) battle of the war.
37. The law that repealed the Missouri Compromise and let each state choose if they wanted to be a slave state or a free
state was the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
38. In Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign, the main the reason the north wanted to capture Atlanta was that it was a railroad
hub and had a lot of industries.
39. Lincoln did not declare slaves in the border states free because he feared the border states might secede and join the
Confederacy
40. The Battle of Chickamauga was important because it was the second bloodiest battle of the war and the largest fought
in Georgia.