Unit 4A: Test Review

Question 1

What are some of the advantages the North had going into the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

More railroads, More factories, More banking assets, More people

Question 2

Why did the Yazoo land fraud occur?

Accepted Answer

Land companies bribed legislators so they could buy land cheaply.

Question 3

Which methods did Georgia use to distribute land in the late 1700s and early 1800s?

Accepted Answer

the headright system and the land lottery

Question 4

In the antebellum era (before the Civil War) cash crop agriculture in the South depended on

Accepted Answer

Finding more land to clear for crops, Use of enslaved labor to grow crops, Technological advances like the cotton gin

Question 5

Why did the Union Navy decide to blockade Georgia's coast with ships?

Accepted Answer

The ships would prevent the South from exporting cotton, The ships would prevent the South from importing weapons

Question 6

The 13th amendment

Accepted Answer

Made slavery illegal in the United States

Question 7

Why did Georgia's state capitals keep moving?

Accepted Answer

To keep the capital centrally located to the population

Question 8

South Carolina politicians decided they could "nullify" the high tariffs on imports. That meant

Accepted Answer

They decided they could 'opt out' of collecting the tariffs, They believed states could choose not to follow federal laws

Question 9

What was the compromise of 1850?

Accepted Answer

An agreement between slave and free states to balance power, An agreement to let territories vote on allowing slavery, An agreement to let California join as a free state

Question 10

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was passed because

Accepted Answer

Southern states' Black Codes restricted freedmens rights

Question 11

Slave codes were

Accepted Answer

Laws that restricted slaves' movement, jobs and education

Question 12

What advantages did the South have going into the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

They were on the defensive, They had more farms to grow food on

Question 13

What are three events that took place in Georgia during the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Battle of Chickamauga, Burning of Atlanta, March to the Sea

Question 14

What is the name of the machine being used in this image?

Accepted Answer

Cotton gin

Question 15

Which Creek leader signed the Treaty of Indian Springs selling all the tribe's land in Georgia?

Accepted Answer

William McIntosh

Question 16

Who ran for president in 1860?

Accepted Answer

John Breckinridge, Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln

Question 17

Northern states supported tariffs on goods imported from Europe; Southerners did not. Tarriffs

Accepted Answer

were extra charges added to the costs of imported goods, were one sign of sectionalism developing in the US

Question 18

The Emancipation Proclamation made it possible for black soldiers to join the US army

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

What are three changes that happened in Georgia during Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

Sharecropping is used on farms, Freedmens Bureau office opens, Public schools are started

Question 20

After the General Assembly got caught selling public land for profit, what changed?

Accepted Answer

Public land was distributed by a lottery

Unit 4A: Test Review

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Unit 4A: Test Review

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