Sectionalism

Which of the following was a result of The Missouri Compromise?

• California came in as a free state
• Utah and New Mexico could vote on the issue of slavery in their state
• Maine came in as a Free state
• Mexico's northern lands became part of the US

This term refers to the time before the Civil War where the country was divided over the issue of slavery.

• Regionalism
• Manifest Destiny
• Sectionalism
• Spoils System

This is a person who wanted to end slavery

• Abolitionist
• Segregationist
• Abolitioner
• Abolisher

Legislators tried to keep a _____________ between free states and slaves states in the Senate

• Balance of power
• Peace
• Working relationship
• Professional environment 

This was a system of safe houses which allowed runaway slaves to reach the free states.

• Underground Railroad
• Underground Freeway
• Underground Runway
• Underground Harbor

This woman made 19 trips and moved over 300 slaves to freedom.

• Harriet Tubman
• Margaret Tubman
• Theresa Tubman
• Katherine Tubman

Every state north of Missouri's 36°30′ border had to be what kind of state?

• Frontier

• Manifest Destiny

• Free State

• Slave State

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

In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court...

• avoided controversy by ruling that Dred Scott had no right to sue in federal court.

• ruled that slaves could sue in federal court only if their masters allowed them to do so.

• ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories because slaves were private property.

• ruled that a slave that had been transported to a free state or territory was a free citizen of the Untied States.

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