The student will analyze the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Georgia. Explain the importance of key issues and events that led to the Civil War; include slavery, states rights, nullification, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850 and the Georgia Platform, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott case, election of 1860, the debate over secession in Georgia, and the role of Alexander Stephens. State the importance of key events of the Civil War; include Antietam, the Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, the Union blockade of Georgia's coast, Sherman's Atlanta Campaign, Sherman's March to the Sea, and Andersonville. Analyze the impact of Reconstruction on Georgia and other southern states, emphasizing Freedmen's Bureau; sharecropping and tenant farming; Reconstruction plans; 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the constitution; Henry McNeal Turner and black legislators; and the Ku Klux Klan
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What factor led to increased tensions concerning slavery in the United States?
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decreased demand for cotton in Great Britain
the establishment of the Monroe Doctrine
the struggles of the Northern economy
continued westward expansion of the country
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The adoption of the Georgia Platform helped delay the Civil War by accepting the
Compromise of 1850. What was one reason the state adopted the Georgia Platform?
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The state wanted federal troops to help force American Indians off of their traditional
homelands in Georgia.
The state supported the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act that banned northern
states from protecting escaped slaves.
The federal government promised to raise tariffs on European goods to protect
Georgia's industrial economy.
The federal government promised to limit immigration to help unemployed men and
women in the South find work.
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What factor led to increased tensions concerning slavery in the United States?
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The adoption of the Georgia Platform helped delay the Civil War by accepting the
Compromise of 1850. What was one reason the state adopted the Georgia Platform?
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The Georgia Platform was a statement supporting
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The section of the Compromise of 1850 that angered the North the MOST and may have actually fueled more tensions between the North and the South was regarding
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What compromise resulted in the admission of California to the Union as a free state?
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Which issue played the GREATEST role in dividing the North and South in the years leading up to the Civil War?
