Sectionalism Review

Which of these correctly describes an effect of the Compromise of 1850 on escaped slaves and freedmen?

• Members of both groups were captured under the Fugitive Slave Law

• Unlike freedmen, escaped slaves were welcome in the gold mines of California

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

• Unlike escaped slaves, freedmen could vote in the territories of the Mexican Cession

What was one effect of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

• The Republican Party lost influence in the federal legislature.

• The Missouri Compromise was deemed unconstitutional by federal court

• Tensions among the populations of northern and southern states increased

• Immigrants were forced to relocate from eastern cities to western territories

• Should the U.S. expand westward?

• Should states be allowed to nullify federal laws?

• Should slave labor be allowed in new states?

• Should states be able to secede from the Union?

• The abolitionist movement gained momentum in the North.

• Members of the U.S. Senate sought to end Black Codes in the Southern states.

• The federal government allowed the expansion of slavery into all new western territories

• Abolitionists moved to the South to avoid living under the new law

• Gulf Coast states had to rely on steamboats to transport goods.

• States in the lower South had more land devoted to plantations.

• Border states had to import needed raw materials.

• States in the upper South were heavily industrialized.

Which of the following was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?

• Fighting broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas

• Kansas entered the Union as a slave state through popular sovereignty in 1856

• Nebraskan settlers who supported abolition moved to Kansas

• The boundary established by the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was extended farther South.

• American Revolution

• Popular Sovereignty

• Manifest Destiny

• Civil War

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• 1) Large Farms 2) Slaves used for labor

• 1) Cottage industry 2) Mild weather that attracted immigrants

• 1) Mining 2) Metal ores and minerals

• 1) Ranching 2) Railroads to transport cattle to market

Why did the economies of western territories develop so differently from the economies of the Northeast and South?

• Western territories had limited land and a large immigrant population

• Western territories had natural harbors and many navigable rivers

• Western territories had rocky soil and a large supply of slave labor

• Western territories had inexpensive land and abundant natural resources