Sectionalism Review #2

The following titles, "Missouri Compromise Declared Unconstitutional" and "The Triumph of Slavery" refer to which Supreme Court Case?

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Worcester v. Georgia

Nullification can occur when

• A state accepts all federal taxes

• A state eliminates all of its own existing laws and starts over

• A state secedes from the union

• A state ignores or cancels something like a federal law

Which of the following conclusions was made in the Dred Scott Case?

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

• Scott was a citizen of the United States

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

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

In the 1850s, why did many slaves flee (leave) to Canada?

• More factory jobs were available in Canada

• They feared being drafted into the Northern army

• The Fugitive Slave Act kept them at risk in the US

• Northern abolitionists refused to help fugitive slaves

William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass were all examples of

• Tax collectors

• Manufacturers

• Temperance movement leaders

• Abolitionists

Both the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and Compromise of 1850 settled conflicts between the North and South over

• The admission of new states into the Union

• Presidential election results

• Immigration to the US

• The role of the Supreme Court

Which literary work presented an anti-slavery position due to the poor treatment of slaves?

• Civil Disobedience

• Rip Van Winkle

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Red Badge of Courage

Harriet Beecher Stowe is famous for

• Writing a series of newspaper editorials that depicted the necessary evil of slavery

• Creating the Underground Railroad and helping to run it

• Being the little old lady that started "this great war" by writing Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Getting women the right to vote for the first time

What proposal suggested a ban on slavery in any territory gained from Mexico?

• Freeport  Doctrine
• Crittenden Compromise
• Wilmot Proviso
• Missouri Compromise

Henry Clay’s goal in both the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise was to

• Declare slavery UNCONSTITUTIONAL

• Reduce tension between sections-NORTH, WEST, SOUTH

• End the slave trade

• Accept only slave states