Unit 9 Day 3

Sectionalism

Multiple Choice

What did Henry Clay propose in the Compromise of 1850 to pacify both the North and South?

• California would be a slave state, but the next state to join the Union would be a free state.

• California would be a slave state, and Oregon would be a free state.

• California would be a free state, and Congress would pass the Fugitive Slave Act.

• California would be a free state, but slavery would be allowed in Kansas and Nebraska.

Multiple Select

Which of the following were effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Select THREE correct answers. 

• Fighting broke out between pro slavery and anti-slavery groups

• Factory owners received tax breaks to relocate factories to Nebraska

• People decided whether or not to allow slavery in Kansas and Nebraska

• All sates in the west would be admitted as free states

• Many Americans rushed to Kansas to influence the vote on slavery

Multiple Choice

What was one result of the law described below?

• Northerners who believed the law was unfair began to support the abolitionist movement.

• Religious groups left the abolitionist movement to avoid political controversy.

• Southerners used the law to challenge the constitutionality of abolitionist goals.

• Abolitionist societies began to focus their efforts on promoting women's suffrage.

Multiple Choice

What was the fundamental question addressed in each of these congressional acts?

The Missouri Compromise

The Compromise of 1850

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Should the U.S. expand westward?

• Should states be allowed to nullify federal laws?

• Should slave labor be allowed in new states?

• Should states be able to secede from the Union?

The Republican Party

• After the Kansas-Nebraska

Act, the Republican Party
was created to stop
slavery from spreading
from the states that
already allowed slavery

• In 1858, Abraham Lincoln

(Republican) expressed
that he felt slavery was
morally wrong when he
debated Senator Douglas

Day 3

• What political party was created to stop the

spread of slavery?

• Which member of this party debated Senator

Douglas?

Turn and Talk

Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Dred Scott was a slave who was

taken by his owner to the North
then back into the South

• Scott sued for his freedom since at

one point he was on ‘free ground’
in the North

• Chief Justice Roger Taney ruled:

1.

Slaves of African descent are not
citizens and cannot sue

2.

Slaves were property, and the
government had no right to take
property away from its citizens

• Therefore, the government would

allow slavery to spread

Day 3

• Summarize the case known as Dred Scott v.

Sandford.

• What did the judge decide about slaves?

Turn and Talk

Multiple Choice

Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Supreme Court case which ruled that slaves are not citizens but are property; Affirmed that slaves do not become free if they travel to free territories or state; Viewed as victory for the South.

• Senator from Massachusetts who called for an end to the bitter sectionalism that was dividing the nation. Believed that the National Government was superior to states government

• Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole

• A series of violent fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas who had moved to Kansas to try to influence the decision of whether or not Kansas would a slave state or a free state.

Multiple Choice

Compromise of 1850

• To leave or withdraw

• Well-known abolitionist that used violence to stop slavery immediately; Was convicted of treason and hung after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.

• Advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas to settle status of the Mexican Cession. Stated: (1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico territories

• The idea government gets its power from the people. Territories that voted to become a slave or free state used this principle

Open Ended

What reform movement would this political party have supported? What evidence supports your answer?          

Open Ended

Why do you think Southerners feared the election of a Republican president? 

Multiple Select

Multiselect - Select the correct answers.

Which statements explain the ruling in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?

Select TWO correct answers. 

• The Supreme Court ruled that northern abolitionists could not move into western territories.

• The Supreme Court ruled that enslaved persons had no rights in federal courts.

• The Supreme Court ruled that women had more rights than enslaved people.

• The Supreme Court ruled that neither Congress nor a territory had the power to ban slavery.

Open Ended

Short Constructed Response - Think about the question carefully.  Then enter your answer to BOTH parts of the question below. 

What was the ruling in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case AND how did it affect the United States?   

Match

Match the following

• The ___________________________________________________________ allowed California to enter the U.S. as a free state and passed a strict Fugitive Slave Law.    

• Under the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the issue of slavery in the territories was decided by _______________________________________________________________.  

• An expanding railroad system and industrialization resulted in many factories in the ___________________________________.    

• The geography and climate of the _____________________________________ led to an economy based on agriculture.     

Compromise of 1850

Popular sovereignty

North

South

• Compromise of 1850

• Popular sovereignty

• North

• South