US History Unit 3 - Expansionism, Nationalism, Sectionalism

Belief that Americans had the right to expand west and spread across the whole North American continent.

• Sectionalism

• Manifest Destiny

• Compromise of 1850

• Nationalism

Loyalty to one's own region of the country, instead of the nation as a whole

• Missouri Compromise

• Nationalism

• Sectionalism

• Immigrant

Select all of the following that are parts of the Missouri Compromise?

(multiple correct choices)

• Missouri enters the union as a slave state

• California enters the union as a free state

• Maine enters the union as a free state

• Establishment of the 36th parallel line (north = free, south = slave)

Law that authorized the forceful removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River

• Indian Removal Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Mississippi River Act

The Compromise of 1850 established which of the following two?

(multiple correct choices)

• California admitted into the union as a slave state

• California admitted into the union as a free state

• Maine as a slave state

• Fugitive Slave Law

An Act/Law named for these two states allowed residents of those states to vote for whether they would be a slave state or a free state.

• Kentucky-Tennessee

• Ohio-Indiana

• Kansas-Nebraska

• Mississippi-Louisiana

Term meaning that people in a territory decide if they want to be admitted into the United States as a slave state or a free state.

• Foreign Policy

• Popular Sovereignty

• Nationalism

• Mob Rule

This Act/Law provided free land in the West to anyone willing to settle there and develop it. This was the governments attempt to encouraged westward migration.

• Homestead Act

• Townshend Act

• Indian Removal Act

• Quartering Act

Which of the following were decisions made in the Supreme Court decision; Dred Scott v. Sanford?

(multiple correct choices)

• Slaves are property that can't be taken away by the government

• Slaves would be free if they live in a free state

• Slaves are not citizens and can not sue in court

• Missouri Compromise was ruled unconstitutional

A nation's overall plan for dealing with other nations

• Nationalism

• Expansionism

• Foreign Policy

• Immigration