Semester 1 Review Georgia Studies
Quiz by LaTonja Decambre
Grade 8
Social Studies
Georgia Standards of Excellence
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- Q1Which States border Georgia?Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South CarolinaFlorida, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South CarolinaAtlantic Ocean, Savannah River, Chattahoochee River, St. Mary RiverTennessee, North Carolina, West Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina20s
- Q2The belief that powers that are not expressly given to the national government belong to the state. States can put their interests and laws over the federal governments.successionantebellumStates' Rightspopular sovereignty10sSS8H6
- Q3Georgia Congressmen Robert Toombs, Alexander Stephens and Howell Cobb convinced the people of Georgia and other southern states to support the Compromise of 1850 if the Fugitive Slave act was added and accepted by the northern states. This prevented the south from seceding from the union for 11 years.NullificationThe Georgia PlatformCompromise of 1850Missouri Compromise20sSS8H6
- Q4Lincoln speech that honored the fallen soldiers in the single bloodiest battle in U.S. history . The speech focused on equality of all people ( including slaves) and encouraged the northern soldiers to continue the fight.Election of 1860Emancipation ProclamationMarch to the SeaGettysburg Address20sSS8H6
- Q5What were the Union advantages during the Civil WarslavesplantationsmoneyThe North had more people, factories and railroad tracks.10sSS8H6
- Q6Who was the commander at Andersonville Prison that executed for the war crime of "excessive cruelty" because 13,000 men died at the prison of starvation and disease under his commandHenry WirzRobert E. LeeWilliam T. ShermanGenera Hood10sSS8H6
- Q7The action of states breaking away or separating themselves from the Union.tariffnullificationsectionalismSecession10sSS8H6
- Q8When the democratic party's vote was split, resulting in Abraham Lincoln ( a republican) becoming president. South Carolina seceded as a result.The Election of 1860popular sovereigntyThe Election of 1864Fugitive Slave Act20sSS8H6
- Q9What were two main causes of the Civil War?States rights and slaveryNullification and Missouri Compromisepopular sovereignty and Kansas- Nebraska actsectionalism and Dred Scott10sSS8H6
- Q10Southern states (especially South Carolina) believed that they had the right to judge federal laws unconstitutional and therefore not enforce them, so they threatened to secede from the union in 1832 because they didn't wan to honor the federal tariff on imported goods.Nullification Crisis of 1832Battle of Ft. SumterAtlanta CampaignElection of 186020sSS8H6
- Q11Senator from Georgia who supported the Compromise of 1850 by organizing the Georgia Platform.. Later became the Vice President of the Confederacy.Alexander StephensWilliam FewStephen JacksonAlexander Hamilton10sSS8H6
- Q12Allowing the citizens to vote to decide on issues. This was used in the Kansas Nebraska Act.Popular Sovereignty30s
- Q13Act that forced northerners and the federal government to return run away slaves to their owners in the south..Fugitive Slave Act30s
- Q14Abraham Lincoln was a member of this newly created party which carried him to the presidency in 1860. The party was against slavery.Republican Party30s
- Q15Two major campaigns fought in Georgia.Atlanta Campaign and March to the Sea30s