Question

The Georgia Platform succeeded in saving the Union from collapse by A) quieting radicals who wanted to secede after the Compromise of 1850. B) balancing the number of slave states with the number of free states. C) threatening a Civil War if the North decided to secede from the Union. D) establishing the guidelines for the creation of the Compromise of 1850.

Answer 1

A) quieting radicals who wanted to secede after the Compromise of 1850.

Answer 2

The correct answer is A.

The Georgia Platform was a resolution adopted by the Southern States at the Georgia Convention in December 1850, as a reponse to the Compromise of 1850. Temporarily it worked as the alternative to secession, but in the long run it was not enough.

The Georgia Platform accepted the compromise while it evidenced that they were determined not to accept more impositions that they considered interfered with the rights of the Southern States, after the provisions in the Compromise of 1850. These had been adopted to end the confrontations between slave and free states on determining the status of the new territories acquired in the Mexican–American War