Unit 5 - Sectionalism in America QUIZ

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

• Nationalism

• Sectionalism

• Popular Sovereignty

• Secession

The Missouri Compromise, Missouri became a slave state and ___________ became a free state.

• Massachussets

• Maine

• Maryland

• Montana

The Missouri Compromise banned slavery above the _________line.

• 30, 32

• 30,90

• 32,30

• 90, 32

The Kansas-Nebraska Act gave the Kansas territory _________________________over deciding if they would be slave or free.

• Federalism

• Popular Sovreignty

• Republicanism

• Separation of Powers

The social unrest that occurred because of the passing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was called?

• Bleeding Kansas

• Bleeding Nebraska

• Election Rebellion of 1856

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

The Fugitive Slave Law dealt with

• selling slaves to the west

• selling slaves in the north

• capturing escaped slaves in the north

• selling slaves in the western territories

This man was caned on the Senate floor ____________.

• Charles Sumner

• Stephen Douglas

• Charles Brooks

• Abraham Lincoln

The term Popular Sovereignty means___________.

• states had authority to do what they wanted in their borders

• the federal government had authority over the states

The Compromise of 1850 included all of these EXCEPT....

• Abolished slavery in D.C.

• California became a free state

• Stronger Fugitive Slave Act

• Entered Vermont as a free state

• New Mexico territory would have no restrictions on slavery

The ________________Compromise of 1820 banned slavery above a certain line of latitude.

• Douglas

• Missouri

• Three-Fifths

• Compromise of 1850