This quiz tests American States That Never Were...But Wanted To Be. Nickajack was the name of a proposed neutral state of Unionist areas of North Alabama and East Tennessee. In the period leading up to the American Civil War there was much talk of secession made by the politicians representing wealthy plantation owners in the Black Belt. Hill country residents were typically poor dirt-farmers and rarely slave-owners. They considered the war that would inevitably follow secession to be ''a war for the rich, fought by the poor,'' and wished to have nothing to do with it. Travel Knowledge Quizzes, Trivia, IQ Tests
This Travel IQ Quiz is based upon the selector American States That Never Were...But Wanted To Be. by Statehoodlum. Test your knowledge of: Nickajack was the name of a proposed neutral state of Unionist areas of North Alabama and East Tennessee. In the period leading up to the American Civil War there was much talk of secession made by the politicians representing wealthy plantation owners in the Black Belt. Hill country residents were typically poor dirt-farmers and rarely slave-owners. They considered the war that would inevitably follow secession to be ''a war for the rich, fought by the poor,'' and wished to have nothing to do with it.
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