Sectionalism 2019 Review

What led South Carolina to threaten to secede from the Union in 1832?

• No taxation without representation
• impressment of sailors
• Quartering Act
• Tariff of Abominations

What was one of the main issues that led to the Civil War?

• States Rights
• nationalism
• taxation without representation
• Impressment of sailors

What piece of legislation allowed California to join the Union as a free state?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Wilmot Proviso
• Compromise of 1850
• Compromise of 1820

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

What was the Dred Scott decision?

• It abolished the tariff of abominations

• It named slaves as property, and ruled for the protection of that property.

• It stated that a slave was free upon his master's death

• It ended the Fugitive Slave Law

Which of the following literary works of Harriet Beecher Stowe supported the abolitionist movement before the Civil War?

• Up From Slavery
• Gone with the Wind
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• The Jungle

In the 1800's, which of the following required Northerners to help return runaway slaves?

• Dred Scott Decision
• Compromise of 1820
• Fugitive Slave Law
• Compromise of 1850

Kansas earned this nickname as a result of the violence that broke out.

• The show me State
• The Ghost Town
• Pottowatomie massacre
• Bleeding Kansas

What occurred as a result of the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• All abolitionist groups and freed slaves left Kansas
• Kansas became a slave state
• Border ruffians invaded and took control of Nebraska
• Bloody conflicts broke out in Kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups

What decision did the Kansas-Nebraska Act repeal?

• Fugitive Slave Law
• Compromise of 1850
• Missouri compromise
• Ordinance of secession passed by South Carolina