Unit 6 Review

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The election results shown on this map most clearly reflect the influence of

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sectional differences

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During the period from 1800 to 1865, the issues of States rights, the tariff, and slavery led most directly to the growth of

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sectionalism

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Which event was the immediate cause of the secession of several Southern states from the Union in 1860? Options: the Dred Scott decision, which declared that all prior compromises on the extension of slavery into the territories were unconstitutional, the Missouri Compromise, which kept an even balance between the number of free and slave states, the raid on the Federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, which was led by the militant abolitionist John Brown, the election of President Lincoln, who opposed the spread of slavery into the territories

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the election of President Lincoln, who opposed the spread of slavery into the territories

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President Abraham Lincoln's main goal throughout the Civil War was to

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preserve the Union

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The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson

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legalized segregation

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The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) had a major impact on the lives of African Americans because it ruled that

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separate but equal public facilities were legal

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After 1877, racial segregation became widespread in the South primarily as a result of the:
- decline of the Ku Klux Klan
- activities of the Freedmen's Bureau
- stationing of federal troops in the South
- passage of Jim Crow laws

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passage of Jim Crow laws

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Which leader founded a vocational training institution in the late 1800s to improve economic opportunities for African Americans?

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Booker T. Washington

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Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois shared the belief that African-Americans should pursue education as the key to improving social status.

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pursue education as the key to improving social status

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African-American leaders Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois differed most in their proposed methods for achieving racial equality.

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proposed methods for achieving racial equality