The Sectional Crisis

What is the definition of Manifest Destiny?

• extreme pride in one's nation

• devotion to the interests of a region over those of a country as a whole.

• a type of sofa

• the belief that the US would expand "from sea to shining sea"

What is the definition of an empresario?

• a person who encouraged colonization in a territory, a colonization agent

• a Spanish explorer

• to be impressed

• soldiers in the Mexican military

What is the definition of resolution?

• re-working a problem to find an answer

• a type of law

• a judgment or decision by the court

• a firm decision to do or not do something

What did the Compromise of 1850 do?

• divided the Louisiana Territory into free and slave states

• established a bicameral (two house) legislature

• allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and gave the south a stronger Fugitive Slave Law

• counted a percentage of the slave population in the southern states

What is the definition of popular sovereignty

• citizens of a territory would vote on whether or not slavery would be permitted

• an idea accepted by many people

• voting to send a representative to Congress

• voting to elect a President

Who was Harriet Tubman?

• a famous author and abolitionist

• a former slave and famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad

• first African American congressperson from a southern state

• an advocate for westward expansion

What was the Underground Railroad?

• a secret train/subway that slaves used to escape

• a railroad that ran at different times in order to help slaves escape

• a secret network of roads and houses that runaway slaves used to escape

• a new political party that opposed slavery

Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?

• famous author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and abolitionist

• former slave and famous "conductor" for the Underground Railroad

• first African American congressperson from a southern state

• advocate for westward expansion

What was ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford?

• the court ruled that Dred Scott was a free man

• the court ruled that slavery was illegal in southern states

• the court ruled that slavery was illegal in the United States

• the court ruled that African Americans-enslaved or free-were not citizens of the United States

What is the definition of Sectionalism?

• extreme pride in one's nation

• devotion to the interests of a region over those of a country as a whole

• a type of sofa

• the belief that the US would expand from "sea to shining sea"