Unit Test 3B - Sectionalism/Civil War

Which group benefited most directly from the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)?

• (1) abolitionists

• (2) immigrants

• (3) slave owners

• (4) enslaved persons

Slavery throughout the United States was permanently abolished by the

• (1) ratification of the Constitution of the United States

• (2) approval of the Republican Party platform of 1860

• (3) issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation

• (4) adoption of the 13th amendment to the Constitution

“Since the Southern states never legally left the Union, they should be restored to the Union as soon as possible.”

The position expressed in this statement is most closely associated with the beliefs of

• (1) Robert E. Lee

• (2) Thaddeus Stevens

• (3) Jefferson Davis

• (4) Abraham Lincoln

The events listed below all contributed to...

• Publication of The Liberator

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Dred Scott decision

• (1) outbreak of the Civil War

• (2) formation of the policy of Manifest Destiny

• 3) passage of the Missouri Compromise

• (4) annexation of Texas

Base your answers to questions 6 and 7 on the passage below and your knowledge of Social Studies.

… In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to “preserve, protect, and defend it.” …

— President Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861

President Lincoln made this statement in an effort to

• (1) urge Congress to spend money to buy the freedom of slaves

• (2) convince Southerners that he posed no threat to their way of life

• (3) offer to compromise his position regarding territorial expansion of slavery

• (4) persuade Americans that war between the North and South was unavoidable

When President Lincoln made this speech, which step toward civil war had already taken place?

• (1) The Emancipation Proclamation had been issued

• (2) Union troops had invaded several Southern states

• (3) General Robert E. Lee had led an attack on Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

• (4) Several Southern states had seceded from the Union

One way that “Bleeding Kansas,” the Dred Scott decision, and John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry had a similar effect on the United States was that these events

• (1) ended conflict over slavery in the territories

• (2) eased tensions between the North and the South

• (3) contributed to the formation of the Whig Party

• (4) made sectional compromise more difficult

The Civil War affected the northern economy by

• (1) causing a severe depression

• (2) increasing unemployment rates

• (3) decreasing demand for agricultural products

• (4) stimulating industrialization

The Missouri Compromise (1820), the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) were all efforts to

• (1) end fighting between midwestern farmers and Native American Indians

• (2) encourage manufacturing in the West

• (3) increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections

• (4) settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories

This poster from the 1850s appeared in response to the

• (1) passage of the fugitive slave law

• (2) start of the Civil War

• (3) issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation

• (4) enactment of the 13th Amendment