Sectionalism Review for Test

The majority of the slave population moved where to work on plantations in the new cotton kingdom

• to the upper south to work in factories

• To the great lakes to work on steamboats and help transport goods

• To the lower south because of the abundance of new and fertile land

What was a result of the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854

• Kansas entered as a slave state through popular sovereignty in 1860

• Fighting broke out between pro slavery and anti-slavery groups which resulted in Bloody Kansas

• The missouri compromise was declared unconstitutional

Popular Sovereignty was used in new territories such as Utah and New Mexico to determine if these territories would be slave or free. This land was gained from

• War of 1812

• American Revolutionary War

• U.S. Mexican War

Sectionalism is defined as what is best for the region and not as a country. How did the economy of the west differ from the North and South

• Slaves worked on plantations to grow cotton

• Immigrants and women worked in factories

• There was cheap land and abundance of natural resources such as gold

How did the Fugitive Slave Law play a role in the abolition movement

• Northerners felt the law was unfair and began to favor or support the abolitionist movement

• Abolitionist began to focus on the Women's Suffrage movement

• Southerners took the law to the supreme court

Which supreme court case declared the Missouri Compromise Unconstitutional and south felt as if they earn a major victory

• McCulloch vs. Maryland

• Dred Scott vs. Sandford

• Worcester vs. Georgia

This group is from Pennsylvania and did not believe in slavery

• Quakers

• Immigrants such as Irish

• American Indians

Which region relied on cotton as their major source of income

• The West

• The North

• The South

What was a major cause of cultivation or reusing the same soil for crops such as cotton and tobacco

• Water contamination caused by fertilizer

• Soil exhaustion

• Increasing cost of land

What was a result of the Missouri Compromise

• Allowed for railroad expansion

• Allowed Immigrants to move west

• Temporarily relieved sectional tensions over slavery