UNIT 8: Civil War Era

The era from 1820-1860 saw growing ____________ in the U.S.

• nationalism
• segregation
• sectionalism
• republicanism

True or False: Southern planters supported tariffs because they increased the value of their cash crops.

• True
• False

The Nullification Crisis in South Carolina was a conflict over:

• slave vs. free states
• states' rights vs. federal power
• relations with foreign countries
• westward expansion

Which act of Congress added a slave and free state and set a line at 36"30' for slavery in the Louisiana Territory?

• Compromise of 1850
• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Wilmot Proviso

Which 1846 proposed bill aimed to ban slavery in territory gained from Mexico?

• Compromise of 1850
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Wilmot Proviso

True or False: The Fugitive Slave Act was part of the Compromise of 1850.

• True
• False

In 1852, support for abolition grew in the North after the publication of:

• Sumner's speech "The Crime Against Kansas"
• the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision
• the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Thoreau's "On Civil Disobedience"

A consequence of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was:

• violence between pro-slavery and abolitionist groups
• gold was discovered in Nebraska
• John Brown led a slave revolt
• Dred Scott sued for his freedom

True or False: In Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Supreme Court declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.

• True
• False

The different reactions to Sen. Charles Sumner and John Brown showed that:

• Southerners were better fighters
• both sides loved violence
• the regions were deeply divided over slavery
• compromises over slavery were unconstitutional