APUSH Period 5 Review

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Sectionalism can best be defined as … ?

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The act of placing the interests of your region ahead of the needs of the nation as a whole.

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Which of the following was a characteristic of the South in the 19th century? Options: An extensive railroad network connecting the rural areas to major cities like Atlanta. An economy heavily based on the unpaid labor of enslaved peoples. Sparsely populated territories with very few women. Many large cities with diverse populations.

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An economy heavily based on the unpaid labor of enslaved peoples.

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Which of the following was a characteristic of the North in the 19th century? Big cities with large immigrant populations. An economy based solely on small farming. Strong trade ties with Latin America, especially the Portuguese colony of Brazil. A government-controlled economy with little freedom for people.

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Big cities with large immigrant populations.

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The main goal of the Missouri Compromise was to—

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form an official agreement on which new states entering the Union would be free states and which would be slave states.

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Describe the Amistad case.

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A revolt of captured and enslaved people on board a ship headed to America.

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Who was Frederick Douglass?

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A former slave who escaped and became a leading abolitionist

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William Lloyd Garrison was a (an)

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Abolitionist and anti-racist advocate.

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John Brown led a raid on the federal armory at Harper’s Ferry because he …

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Planned to steal weapons to arm slaves against plantation owners.

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Who was Harriet Tubman?

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The leader of the "Underground Railroad"

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The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union is known as:

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secession.