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Which listing places the following events proper chronological order?
a) 1. Compromise of 1850 2. Georgia Platform 3. Lincoln's Election 4. Georgia votes to secede
b) 1. Georgia Platform 2. Compromise of 1850 3. Georgia votes to secede 4. Lincoln's election
c) 1. Compromise of 1850 2. Georgia Platform 3. Georgia votes to secede 4. Lincoln's Election
d) 1. Georgia Platform 2. Lincoln's Election 3. Georgia votes to secede 4. Compromise of 1850

What was the group of white vigilantes who used violence to try and keep black Georgians from voting after the Civil War?
a) Ku Klux Klan
b) John Birch Society
c) Republican Party
d) Grand Army of the Republic

What BEST explains the importance of Atlanta to Union leaders in the Civil War?
a) Atlanta was an industrial center and transportaion hub.
b) Atlanta was the largest city in the South.
c) Atlanta had many tourist attractions that appealed to the Union leaders.
d) Atlanta was the capital of the Confederacy.

Which of the following BEST defines the concept of nullification in the antebellum era?
a) Southern states believed that state governments had the authority and power to nullify or rule unlawful federal laws.
b) Northern states believed that state governments had the authority and power to nullify or rule unlawful federal laws.
c)
d)

The first controversy involving nullification in the antebellum era came about between South Carolina and the federal government. What issue sparked that controversy?
a) the tariff
b) the slave trade
c) the firing on Fort Sumter
d) federal support for railroads and other internal improvements

Under the Missouri Compromise, Missouri came in as a slave state and Maine entered the Union as a free state. What was the third part of this sectional deal?
a) All new states drawn from territories north of Missouri would enter as free states.
b) All new states drawn from territories north of Missouri would enter as slave states just like Missouri.
c) Kansas and Nebraska would be open to slavery under the principle of popular sovereignty.
d) California would be a free state.

This Reconstruction Era amendment gave black men the right to vote.
a) Thirteenth Amendment
b) Fifteenth Amendment
c) Fourteenth Amendment
d) Second Amendment

This Reconstruction Era amendment guaranteed full rights of citizenship to all Americans regardless of race.
a) Fourteenth Amendment
b) Fifteenth Amendment
c) Thirteenth Amendment
d) Tenth Amendment

This slave sued for his freedom, and the case went all the way to the Supreme Court.
a) Dred Scott
b) Frederick Douglass
c) Alexander Stephens
d) Boris Diaw

What BEST characterizes the presidential election of 1860?
a) Lincoln won because of solid the support of southerners.
b) Lincoln won without any support from southerners or winning any southern states.
c) Lincoln won the critical state of California, and this carried the election.
d) Lincoln carried the North due to the support from his Democratic Party.

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