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Westward expansion led to growing ____________ and controversy over the expansion of slavery to the territories.

• sectionalism

• slavery

• unity

• equality

The first indicator of national trouble between the North and South came when ___________ applied for statehood.

• Kansas

• Nebraska

• Missouri

• Texas

Northern states were concerned about Missouri joining the Union as a slave state because it was the first state admitted from the Louisiana Purchase (thereby setting a precedent) and it would upset the equal balance of slave and free states’ votes that was balanced in the _________.

• House of Representatives

• General Assembly

• Senate

• Commons House

Prior to the Civil War, a compromise was reached that admitted ________ as a ______ state and _______ as a ______ state.

• Missouri, free / Maine, slave

• Kansas, free / Minnesota, slave

• Kansas, slave / Maine, slave

• Missouri, slave / Maine, free

The ____________________ tried to avoid future controversy by prohibiting slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36 30’ latitude line.

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Great Compromise

• 36/30 Act

The Nullification [interposition] crisis was the result of the different impact that _________________ had on the North and the South.

• slavery

• sectionalism

• tariffs

A protective tariff is designed to raise import taxes on goods coming from foreign countries in order to make them more expensive than goods produced in the United States. This would benefit the emerging __________ in the _________.

• industries, south

• industries, north

• agriculture, south

• agriculture, north

Since South Carolina was largely ______________, a protective tariff would raise the price of the manufactured goods that South Carolinians would buy from the industrial north or from ______________.

• industrial, France

• agricultural, Great Britain

• industrial, Great Britain

• agricultural, France

When the United States Congress passed a protective tax in 1828, then Vice President _________________ anonymously wrote South Carolina Exposition and Protest.

• Alexander Hamilton

• John Adams

• Andrew Jackson

• John C. Calhoun

A state’s right to declare a law unconstitutional.

• nullification

• tariffs

• veto

• override