Sectionalism

In 1850, the U.S. Congress relied on compromise to settle disagreements among the states. A series of laws known as the Compromise of 1850 was intended to solve sectional disagreements over the-

• total abolition of slavery in the south

• central government's role in commerce

• the tariff system

• admission of territories as free or slave states

Harriett Beecher Stowe published the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852. The main impact of Stowe's novel was-

• the beginning of the Civil War

• an immediate end to slavery in the South

• a shift in the North's attitude toward slavery

• immediate improvement in the lives of slaves

The growth of the plantation system in the South was influenced by several factors, including the-

• strong demand for certain plantation crops in Europe

• willingness of slaves to work all year on the plantations

• high tariffs placed on crops imported from other countries

• none of these

Why did the economies of western territories develop so differently from the economies of the northern and southern states?

• western territories had limited land and large amounts of immigrants

• western territories had natural harbors and navigable rivers

• western territories had inexpensive land and abundant natural resources

• western territories had rocky soil and abundant slave labor

John C. Calhoun had stated in 1828 that a state had the right to ________________ a federal law within its borders or even to secede from the Union if it wished.

• accept

• overrule

• nullify

• none of these

The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a FREE state, in exchange-

• Congress passed a tighter Fugitive Slave Law

• Congress signed the Emancipation Proclamation

• Congress returned the rest of the Mexican Cession land back to Mexico

• Congress added Texas to the United States

The ____________________ Act proposed the new doctrine of "Popular Sovereignty" - people in a territory would decide for themselves whether that area should have slavery.

• Missouri Compromise

• The Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska

• Indian Removal

This Supreme Court case ruled that slaves were property and Congress had no right to take away a slaveholder's property?

• Wocester v. Gerogia

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Marbury v. Madison

• McCulloch v. Maryland

White abolitionist,___________________ lead slave revolts in Kansas and Harper's Ferry, his name became a symbol for slave revolts leading to the Civil War.

• John C. Calhoun

• John Brown

• Abraham Lincoln

• Fredrick Douglas

In the 1850s, why did many escaped slaves flee to Canada?

• They feared being drafted into the Northern Army

• More factory jobs were available in Canada

• The Fugitive Slave Act kept them at risk in the U.S.

• Slave ownership was too expensive for Northern farmers