Sectionalism and the Civil War

Which of these correctly describes an effect of the compromise of 1850 on escaped slaves and freedmen?

• Members of both groups were captured under the Fugitive Slave Law

• Unlike freedmen, escaped slaves were welcome in the old mines of California

• Members of both groups could be sold in Washington, D.C., slave markets

• Unlike escaped slaves, freedmen could vote in the territories of the Mexican Cession

Which of these directly resulted from the event announced in this headline?

• The abolitionist movement gained momentum in the North

• Members of the U.S. Senate sought to end black codes in the southern states

• The federal government allowed the expansion of slavery into all new western territories

• Abolitionists moved to the south to avoid living under the new law

These headlines refer to the decision in which Supreme Court case?

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Worcester v. Georgia

The Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) had an important effect of life in the United States because the decision

• Prohibited slavery in lands west of the Mississippi River

• gave full citizenship to all enslaved persons

• denied Congress the power to regulate slavery in the territories

• allowed for the importation of enslaved persons for ten years

Based on the excerpt, which conclusion can be drawn about Chief Justice Taney's decision in the Dred Scoot case?

• Scott was a citizen of the United States

• By living in Missouri, Scott was no longer a slave

• Scott was considered as property that could not be taken from its owner

• The Missouri Compromise allowed Scott to bring a case to the Supreme Court

Which of these correctly describes an effect of the Compromise of 1850 on escaped slaves and freedmen?

• Members of both groups were captured under the Fugitive Slave Law

• Unlike freedmen, escaped slaves were welcome in the gold mines of California

• Members of both groups could be sold in Washington, D.C., slave markets

• Unlike escaped slaves, freedmen could vote in the territories of the Mexican Cession

One way the lives of free black people differed from the lives of enslaved people in colonial America was that free black people were -

• able to serve on school boards

• allowed to run for political office

• permitted to own small businesses

• restricted from leaving southern colonies

What was the fundamental question addressed in each of these congressional acts?

• Should the U.S. expand westward?

• Should states be allowed to nullify federal laws?

• Should slave labor be allowed in new states?

• Should states be able to secede from the Union?

Which of the following was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?

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

• Kansas entered the Union as a slave state through popular sovereignty in 1856

• Nebraskan settlers who supported abolition moved to Kansas

• The boundary established by the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was extended farther south.

During the heightened period of sectionalism of the early 1800s, John C. Calhoun became a spokesman for southern states by -

• working to repeal the Fugitive Slave Act

• compromising to stop the spread of slavery

• arguing in favor of a state's right to nullify federal laws

• claiming that the Constitution did not apply to the states