Sectionalism OBJ2

Which of the following was the senator that proposed the Missouri Compromise?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• Henry Clay

• James Buchanan

All Compromises and Acts during this time period were efforts to resolve the issue of...

• war

• immigration

• slavery

• tariffs

Which of the following was a cause of the Civil War?

• Slavery

• State's Rights

• Economic differences

• All of the answers are causes

What is true about abolitionists.

• They worked to end slavery.

• They worked to help slaves escape.

• They utilized the Underground Railroad.

• All of these are true.

The Fugitive Slave Act made it difficult for which group of people?

• slave owners

• the Northerners

• the slaves and freedmen

• the Southerners

As the United States expanded westward and territories were becoming states, what was the question at the forefront?

• Will new states be a free state or a slave state?

• Will new states be industrialized or be based on agriculture?

• Will states in the West secede?

How long did the Missouri Compromise relieve the differences between each section of the United States?

• Permanently

• Temporarily

• Never

Which of these correctly describes an effect of the Compromise of 1850?

• Escaped slaves were welcome in the gold mines of California

• Unlike escaped slaves, freedmen could vote in certain states

• Members of both groups were captured under the Fugitive Slave Law, and it made it more difficult for freedmen to prove their freedom

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

Which agreement allowed Maine to join the Union as a free state?

• Ohio Compromise

• Treaty of Ghent

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

All of the following are ideas of the Compromise of 1850 EXCEPT which one?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• California was admitted to join as a free state

• Other new territories could have slavery

• Washington D.C. could have slaves but not the slave trade

• Freedmen were for ed back into slavery