Sectionalism: Rising Tensions over Slavery

The Missouri Compromise, the compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were all efforts to

• end fighting between midwestern farmers and native American Indians

• encourage manufacturing in the west

• increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections

• settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories

What is popular sovereignty?

• Where sovereignty is left to the government to decide

• Where sovereignty is left to the people to decide

The WHAT was part of the Compromise of 1850 and made it a crime to help runaway slaves?

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Fugitive Criminal Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• California-Maine Act

Which of the following describes "Bleeding Kansas"?

• A violent slave uprising led by Joseph Cinque

• Violence in Kansas between proslavery and antislavery settlers prior to the Civil War

• The turning point of the Civil War, in which Robert E. Lee's army was routed from Kansas

• The devastation caused by a tornado in Kansas in 1854, which killed 55 people

The Missouri Compromise allowed what state to be a slave state and what state to be a free state?

• Missouri/ Maine
• Maine/Missouri
• Texas/California
• California/ D.C

An Illinois lawyer who became the 16^th President of the United States

• Abraham Lincoln
• Stephen Douglas
• James Buchanan
• John C. Fremont

Between 1850 and 1860, which of the following issues was a major area of conflict in  U.S. politics?

• Debate over tariffs
• expansion of slavery
• U.S. policy of neutrality
• Growth of cities

What state was first state to secede from the union?

• Georgia
• Alabama
• South Carolina
• North Carolina

Who won the election of 1860 causing southern states to begin seceding (leaving) from the Union?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Jackson

• Thomas Jefferson

• Andrew Johnson

What issue divided the democratic party during the election of 1860?

• Slavery

• Taxes

• Manifest Destiny

• Foreign Policy