Sectionalism Quiz

• North

• South

• West

• North

• South

• West

Which compromise made rules for expanding slavery in the Mexican Cession, made California a free state, and gave the South the Fugitive Slave Act?

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Three-fifths compromise

Which South Carolina Senator supported slavery, nullification, and states' rights?

• Daniel Webster
• Sam Houston
• Henry Clay
• John C Calhoun

Which law is based on popular sovereignty?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Proclamation of 1763
• Quartering Act
• Alien and Sedition Acts

Which Supreme Court case determined slaves are property and threw out the principles of the Missouri Compromise?

• Worcester v Georgia
• Marbury v Madison
• Dred Scott v Sandford
• Gibbons v Ogden

Which compromise drew a line across the map of the United States to divide slave states from free states?

• Missouri Compromise
  
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Three-fifths compromise

What does the word secede mean?

• To leave, as in one country leaving another
• To gain or acquire territory
• To give up territory
• To move somewhere permanently

Which Kentucky politician wrote several major compromises on the issue of slavery? (Hint: He also lost the presidential election three different times)

• Andrew Jackson
• Daniel Webster
• John C Calhoun
• Henry Clay

Which of the following best describes the Fugitive Slave Act?

• A political compromise supported by free African Americans in the North
• A proclamation to allow all slaves who had escaped from the South to become freedmen
• Southern slave owners could recapture slaves who had previously escaped to Northern states
• A law supported by the North that allowed slaves to leave their plantations