1) Which is a correct statement about the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision of 1857?

Slaves were classified as property without human rights.

2) Which BEST explains why Georgia’s decision to secede was important to the southern states?

Georgia had high economic value because it was a major agricultural producer

3) The main purpose of General Sherman's "March to the Sea" in 1864 was to

destroy the South's strategic and economic capacity to fight

4) The Union blockade during the Civil War

caused supply shortages in the south, especially for manufactured goods.

6) Why were blockade runners important to Georgia during the Civil War?

They brought needed supplies into the state.

7) After the Civil War, the typical planter in Georgia had plenty of land but no labor to work it. How was slave labor replaced in Georgia?

Landowners allowed people with no land to grow crops on their land for a share of those crops.
8) What was Abraham Lincoln's official stand on slavery during the presidential campaign of 1860?

Slavery should not be allowed to spread into new territories.

9) Why were states' rights an issue between the North and the South?

The South did not want the federal laws to overrule the state laws

10) What action decided that California would enter as a free state while Texas would become a slave state? This action also put the Fugitive Slave Act into place.

Compromise of 1850

11) What does the term secession describe?

the act of a state leaving the nation

12) Which event led to a special legislative session in Georgia to consider seceding from the Union?

Lincoln's presidential election
13) Which would make the BEST title for this list of notes about the Civil War?
• Fought between September 18-20, 1863
• Battle was in northwest Georgia, just south of Chattanooga
• Second-highest number of casualties in the war
• Decisive victory for the Confederate troops
• Union forces withdraw to Chattanooga

The Battle of Chickamauga

15) Which of these BEST describes the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation?

The President publicly announced slavery would end in Southern states

17) The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments were all important additions to the Constitution
because they

addressed issues that contributed to the Civil War.

18) In American history, the term "Reconstruction" refers to

federal government intervention in the former Confederate states in order to monitor the treatment of former slaves.

19) What is the name of the labor system that developed throughout the South after the Civil War kept poor blacks and white working in agriculture?

sharecropping
20) In 1868, the Georgia General Assembly ratified the Fourteenth Amendment, allowing re-admittance into the Union. Though this amendment granted citizenship to blacks, the House of Representatives and Senate of Georgia soon removed the black members from the Assembly. On what grounds did the state lawmakers claim to remove these members?

The state constitution did not recognize blacks' rights to hold public office.

21) Presidential Reconstruction following the American Civil War can BEST be described as

a desire to rebuild the country quickly and without ill feelings following the war

22) Which group was created in late 1865 to use intimidation and scare tactics to prevent both programs of Reconstruction and laws promoting racial equality?

the Ku Klux Klan

23)
- Founded in 1865
-Helped former slaves find homes, employment
- Ended in 1871
These are describing which government program?

Freedmen's Bureau

24) Which is the BEST description of the Southern Economy during Reconstruction?

The Southern economy was still based on agriculture and cotton, but now depended on sharecropping rather than slave labor

25) The term "reconstruction" in United States history refers to the period after what event?

The Civil War