PMA Review 1

This term means caring about issues affecting your section of the country (North, South, or West) more than the United States as a whole. 

• sectionalism
• popular sovereignty
• tariff
• checks and balances

What did the Fugitive Slave Law do?

• The underground railroad was ended
• Slaves that ran-away would be jailed
• Made it illegal for slaveholders to recapture their slaves
• Made it easier for slaveholders to find and reclaim runaway slaves

What did the Supreme Court rule in the case Scott v. Sanford?  The court decided. . . 

• that Congress had no right to limit slavery anywhere.
• that popular sovereignty would decide the issue of slavery in the territories.
• that Dred Scott was a free man.
• that slavery was illegal in the Northwest Territory.

This law (act) opened the Kansas and Nebraska territory to being possible slave states 

• Fugitive Slave Act 
• Bleeding Kansas
• Missouri Compromise 
• Kansas-Nebraska Act 

Throughout the 1800's, cultural differences grew between the _____________ and ______________ geographic regions of the U.S.A.

• South, West
• North, East
• West, East
• North, South

It was after the Confederacy lost this battle that the Confederate Leaders realized Great Britain would not support the Southern states in their war effort.

• Battle of Gettysburg
• Battle of Saratoga
• Battle of Antitam
• First Battle of Bullrun

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

• The statement giving freedom to all women.
• A statement giving freedom to all people in the U.S.A.
• A statement giving freedom to all Confederate States still at war with the Union.
• A statement giving freedom to slaves in all Confederate States still at war with the Union.

What is the purpose of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution?

• Gave African American's citizenship and provided equal protection of the law for all citizens
• Gave all men the right to vote
• Made slavery illegal
• Gave women the right to vote

What is the purpose of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution?

• Gave African American's citizenship and provided equal protection of the law for all citizens
• Gave all men the right to vote
• Made slavery illegal
• Gave women the right to vote

Commander of the Confederate forces, Robert E. Lee, retreated back to the South, ending this historic battle.

• Battle of Gettysburg
• Battle of Antietam
• Fort Sumter
• Battle of Vicksburg