Sectionalism

Multiple Choice

In the opinion of the court, the legislation and histories of the times, and the language used in the Declaration of Independence, show, that neither the class of persons who had been imported as slaves, nor their descendants, whether they had become free or not, were then acknowledged as a part of the people, nor intended to be included in the general words used in that memorable instrument.

Source: Roger Taney, Supreme Court Chief Justice

One reason the decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) was so controversial is that it

• 1. strengthened the idea of popular sovereignty

• 1. gave enslaved persons full citizenship

• ruled that Congress had no power to limit slavery in the territories

• 1. supported Harriet Beecher Stowe’s point of view in Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Multiple Choice

“Missouri Compromise Allows Two New States Into the Union”

“Congress Agrees to Compromise of 1850”

“Popular Sovereignty Adopted Under Kansas- Nebraska Act”

Which issue is reflected in these headlines?

• 1. status of slavery in the territories and states

• 1. growth of agriculture on the Great Plains

• 1. clash of federal and state powers

• 1. conflicts with foreign nations over the West

Multiple Choice

… The whole military force of the State is at the service of a Mr. Suttle, a slaveholder from Virginia, to enable him to catch a man whom he calls his property; Is this what all these soldiers, all this training, have been for these seventy-nine years past [since the beginning of the American Revolution]? Have they been trained merely to rob Mexico and carry back fugitive slaves to their masters?…

— Henry David Thoreau, Independence Day speech at Framingham, Massachusetts

The author of this statement is expressing dissatisfaction with a provision included in the

• 1. Treaty of Ghent (1815)

• 1. Oregon Treaty of 1846

• 1. Compromise of 1850

• 1. Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

Multiple Choice

Speaker A: The right way to settle the question of slavery in the territories is to let the people who live there determine if their state is to be slave or free.

The solution proposed by Speaker A is known as

• 1. nullification

• 1. popular sovereignty

• Missouri Compromise

• 1. popular sovereignty

Multiple Choice

This poster from the 1850s appeared in response to the

• 1. passage of the fugitive slave law

• 1. start of the Civil War

• 1. issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation

• 1. enactment of the 13th Amendment