Sectionalism and Causes of the Civil War

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

• Sectionalism

• Nationalism

• Popular Sovereignty

• Secession

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?

• Plessy Ferguson

• Frederick Douglass

• Dred Scott

• Stephen Douglas

Which region of the country had a lot of manufacturing?

• The North

• The South

• The West

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

• Dred Scott Decision

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

Kansas earned this nickname as a result of the violence that broke out over disagreements for the expansion of slavery.

• Pottowatomie massacre

• The Jayhawk State

• Bleeding Kansas

• The mob state

Economy of the South

• Plantation agriculture, slavery

• Manufacturing and Industry

• Farming and Mining

What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Kansas and Nebraska are allowed to vote for statehood

• Kansas and Nebraska are granted a local assembly

• Kansas and Nebraska can decide whether to be free or slave territories

What is an abolitionist?

• A person who wanted to end alcohol abuse

• A person who fought for women's suffrage

• A person who wanted to end slavery

(1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, (4) federal assumption of Texas debt, (5) slave trade abolished in DC, and (6) new fugitive slave law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas

• Compromise of 1820
• Missouri Compromise
• The New Deal
• Compromise of 1850

States' Rights, Slavery, Tariffs, & Sectionalism were the major issues that led to the start of:

• The Republic of Texas
• World War I
• World War II
• The Civil War