Sectionalism

What was the purpose of the Missouri Compromise?

• an agreement to allow slavery everywhere

• an agreement that would create equality with number of slave and free states

• an agreement to allow popular sovereignty

• an agreement to abolish slavery in the whole United States

The Fugitive Slave Act-

• allowed escaped slaves to be returned to their owners.

• was enforced in the South only.

• angered the people of the South.

• was enacted to help aboilitionists.

The Southern states were very unhappy with what decision?

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• The Lincoln-Douglas debates

• Popular Sovereignty

• Election of 1860

Which state seceded from the United States?

• South Carolina

• South Dakota

• North Carolina

• slave states

Who was president during the Civil War?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Abraham Washington

• George Lincoln

• Lincoln Memorial

What issue surrounded the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Popular Sovereignty

• States' Rights

• Abolition

• secession

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Anthony

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

How did abolitionists learn about Lincoln's stance on slavery?

• through newspaper clippings

• through the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• through a telegram

• through the Lincoln-Douglas debates

Under states' rights, who should have the authority to delegate legislation (enact laws)?

• a state government

• a city government

• the federal government

• through county seats

Which political party won the election of 1860?

• Federalist Party

• Whig Party

• Republican Party

• Democratic Party