Sectionalism & Reform Review

The belief that national interests should be placed below regional concerns is called

• Transcendentalism
• Nationalism
• Sectionalism
• Annexation

The Missouri Compromise:

• Created two new slave states
• Brought about the Civil War
• Brought Maine in as a free state and Missouri in as a slave state
• Made Missouri a slave state and Michigan a free state

This region relied heavily on cotton

• North
• South
• West

This region's economy was based on industry and manufacturing

• North
• South
• West

This region was constantly receiving new immigrants that were eager to strike it rich mining for gold

• North
• South
• West

The Compromise of 1850 created stronger fugitive slave laws, banned the slave trade in Washington D.C., allowed Texas to enter the Union as a slave state and....

• Created the state of Oregon as a free state
• Created the state of California as a slave state
• Created the state of Iowa as a free state
• Created the state of California as a free state

The idea of ______ was used to decide if Kansas and Nebraska would become free or slave states

• Manifest Destiny
• Popular Sovereignty
• Congressional Oversight
• Sectionalism

Acts passed that made it a crime to help runaway slaves were known as

• Regional Acts
• Freed Slaves Acts
• Fugitive Slave Acts
• Southern Acts

____ was the most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad

• Levi Coffin
• Harriet Tubman
• Stephen Myers
• Frederick Douglass

The purpose of the Underground Railroad was to set up a system to bring runaway slaves from the South to freedom in Canada

• true
• false