sectionalism

Which of the following words means that a person places the interests of a small area over the interests of the entire country?

• Nationalism
• Sectionalism
• Popular Sovereignty
• Secession

Every state north of Missouri's southern border had to be what kind of state?

• Free
• Slave
• Frontier
• Sovereign

What idea was introduced by the Compromise of 1850?

• Popular Sovereignty
• Sucession
• Limited Government
• Fugitive Slave Law

Who is the slave or former slave that lost his case, then won his case, then lost his case and then took his case all the way to the Federal Supreme Court and lost his case trying to gain his freedom?

• Stephen Douglas
• Plessy Ferguson
• Dred Scott
• Fredrick Douglas

According to the Taney Supreme Court decision, slaves can never be what?

• Citizens
• Landowners
• Paid
• Bought

How did the Federal Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott case?

• In favor of Dred Scott
• Against Dred Scott

Tariffs caused the price of ____ to go up.

• foreign goods
• american made goods
• ice cream
• slaves

Who is associated with the Underground Railroad?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Harriet Tubman
• John C. Calhoun
• Frederick Douglass

An abolitionist supported which of the following causes?

• outlawing alcohol
• ending slavery
• limiting slavery to southern states
• ending women's suffrage

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