Quiz on sectionalism

California being admitted as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Law are both part of

• The Missouri Compromise of 1820

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Nullification Act

What type of transportation was common in the north but uncommon in the south?

• Roads for vehicles

• Wagon paths

• Railroads

• Steamboats for river travel

The Missouri Compromise

• created rules for all new territories regarding slavery

• allowed slave states to come in without a free state to balance them out

• maintained the balance of slave and free states

• established rules for statehood in the Mexican Cession

Every state north of Missouri's southern border had to be what kind of state?

• Free
• Slave
• Frontier
• Sovereign

Which region of the country had a lot of manufacturing?

• the north
• the south
• the west
• Alaska

Where was the Missouri Compromise line?

• 36-30 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase
• 46-40 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase
• 56-50 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase
• 66-60 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase

Between 1850 and 1860, which of the following issues was a major area of conflict in  U.S. politics?

• Debate over tariffs
• expansion of slavery
• U.S. policy of neutrality
• Growth of cities

Loyalty to ones state or section of the country is

• Sectionalism

• Nationalism

• Capitalism

• Socialism

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

Which region of the country had a lot of manufacturing?

• the north
• the south
• the west
• Alaska