Sectionalism and Compromises

Why did the South oppose a tariff? 

• it increased the price of cotton 
• the north may stop buying their cotton 
• believed manufactured prices would increase and Great Britain would not buy their cotton
• it decreased the price of manufactured goods

Why did the North favor a tariff? 

• protected their jobs from foreign competition 
• it increased the prices of cotton 
• it would decrease slave labor 
• it would punish the Southern economy 

What did Southerners believe about the role of government? 

• Believed in a strong central government
• Believed the national government was supreme over the states 
• States' Rights - could declare national laws illegal 
• Believed the national government should be abolished 

Why did the North oppose slavery? 

• Believed it should be abolished to hurt the Southern economy 
• Believed it should be abolished for moral reasons 
• Believed slavery would end on its own
• Believed the slavery issue could be compromised 

Why did the South support slavery? 

• The South believed it would end on its own
• The South believed abolishing slavery would destroy their economy 

Which Pre-Civil War region believed in a strong central government?

• North
• South

Which region was mostly urban?

• North

• South

Balancing slave and free states by admitting Missouri as slave and Maine as free was know as the...

• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• popular sovereignty
• Missouri Compromise of 1820

Which statement best describes the Compromise of 1850?

• Main is a free state and missouri is a slave state.
• People decided the slavery issue in the Louisiana Territory.
• California is a free state and the people of the Southwest territories vote on slavery.
• A new fugitive slave law is passed and Oregon is a slave state

How were Kansas and Nebraska supposed to decide on slavery.

• popular sovereignty
• president decides
• Congress decides
• State legislatures decide.