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Which of the following BEST defines the concept of states' rights in the antebellum era?
a) Southern states believed that state authority and  rules were more important (held precedence) over federal laws.
b) Northern states believed that state authority and  rules were more important (held precedence) over federal laws
c) Abraham Lincoln felt that states had the right to secede from the Union.
d)

One vital component of the what became known as the Anaconda Plan was the Union hope to prevent southern cotton from being sold overseas. What was employed by the North to enforce this?
a) Union blockade
b) Sherman's March to the Sea
c) Union invasion of Canada
d) Kansas- Nebraska Act

What best characterizes Chief Justice Roger Taney's decision in Dred Scott v.Sanford?
a) Taney ruled that Dred and all slaves could never be free and were not recognized by the Constitution as citizens.
b) Taney declared Dred and all slaves free because the Declaration of Independence had said All men are created equal.
c) Taney declared that the Cherokee must vacate their Georgia lands and move to Oklahoma.
d) Taney decided that the ruling on the field would stand due to the lack of irrefutable evidence to overturn it.

What BEST explains why Union prisoners of war were shuffled around between a variety of sites, including the Blackshear prison camp, during the fall of 1864?
a) Sherman's March to the Sea through the heart of the state.
b) The war came to an end in 1864.
c) They were looking to move the prisoners to healthier camps.
d) The Confederacy was testing the rail lines in preparation of a massive evacuation plan for the capital of Richmond.

What was the name of the organization that was created to help the former slaves make the transition to free citizen?
a) Freedmen's Bureau
b) NAACP
c) Ku Klux Klan
d) National Brotherhood of Freedmen

Who was the leader of the black legislators removed from the General Assembly by white Democrats in 1868?
a) Henry McNeal Turner
b) Booker T. Washington
c) Booker T. Washington
d) W.E.B. DuBois

What was the response of Georgians to the Compromise of 1850 that stated Georgia would remain loyal to the deal and the nation as long as nothing further was done to restrict slavery in the territories?
a) Georgia Platform
b) Constitution
c) Kansas-Nebraska Act
d) Ordinance of Secession

President Andrew Johnson allowed southern states to enter after passing only the thirteenth amendment. As a result, new southern states like Georgia created black codes that limited the rights of the former slaves. Therefore, the new fourteenth a
a) Congressional Reconstruction Plan
b) Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan
c) Johnson's Reconstruction Plan
d)

What was the MOST important part of the Compromise of 1850 for southerners?
a) a new Fugitive Slave Act
b) a new protective tariff
c) California a free state
d) the slave trade was ended in Washington, DC

The Battle of Antietam was witness to the single bloodiest day in the Civil War, yet it remains important for what other reason?
a) It gave Lincoln the victory he needed to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
b) It was the last battle of the war?
c) It gave General Lee the momentum to invade the North and end the war.
d) It was the first battle in Georgia.

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