RHS Flashcard 5B - Sectional Conflict

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In the period between 1820 and 1860, many Southerners wanted slavery extended to the western territories so that the South could

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keep enough strength in the Senate to protect southern interests

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Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Sojourner Truth were all prominent in which reform movement?

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abolition

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Sectional rivalries during the Antebellum Period (Pre-Civil War) centered mainly around the issues of: foreign policy, the abolition of slavery, and the currency system; states’ rights, the extension of slavery, and tariffs; tariffs, the currency system, and trust regulation; conservation, foreign policy, and women’s suffrage.

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states’ rights, the extension of slavery, and tariffs

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In which section of the United States in the early 1800s was the plantation system an important feature? Options: New England, Mid-Atlantic colonies, the South, the West

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the South

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Which of the following statement about the Dred Scott decision is correct?

• It stated that Black people were not citizens of the United States.

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• It upheld the principle of popular sovereignty.

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• It upheld the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise.

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• It recognized the power of Congress to prohibit slavery in the territories, but refused on technical grounds to free Scott.

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It stated that Black people were not citizens of the United States.

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Which problem did the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act attempt to solve?

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extension of slavery into the western territories

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The most controversial and divisive component of the Compromise of 1850 was the

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passage of a tougher national fugitive slave act

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What did the South gain from both the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act? Options: an enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, a provision to honor the Mason-Dixon line, the gradual elimination of slavery in the territories being added to the nation, the use of popular sovereignty in making decisions about slavery in the territories

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the use of popular sovereignty in making decisions about slavery in the territories

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Historians have argued that all of the following were causes of the Civil War EXCEPT: a constitutional crisis pitting states’ rights against federal power, differences over the morality and future of slavery, the clash of economic interests between agrarian and industrializing regions.

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the growing power of poor Southern Whites who resisted planter dominance and sought to abolish slavery

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Which event was the immediate cause of the secession of seven 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 of the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, which was led by the militant abolitionist John Brown, the election of Abraham Lincoln, who opposed the spread of slavery into the territories

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