SECTIONALISM AND REFORM REVIEW

Harriet Beecher Stowe's book Uncle Tom's Cabin encouraged —

• legalized voting for slaves

• the expansion of the slave-driven cotton economy

• organized resistance to slavery

• the armed rebellion of the slaves in Southern states

William Lloyd Garrison advanced the abolitionist movement by —

• publishing an anti-slavery newspaper

• helping slaves to flee north

• making Texas a free territory

• drafting the Emancipation Proclamation

Which of the following is an example of civil disobedience against the practice of slavery?

• Nullification Act

• Boston Tea Party

• Great Awakening

• Underground Railroad

How did Henry David Thoreau demonstrate his belief in civil disobedience?

• He refused to pay taxes in protest against the Mexican War.

• He refused to join the Union army during the Civil War

• He boycotted the 1844 presidential election.

• He became a member of the Whig Party

Which of the following best summarizes the Compromise of 1850?

• Slavery was to be allowed in all areas of the Mexican Cession.

• Slavery was to be outlawed in all areas of the Mexican Cession.

• Slavery was to be allowed in California but not Texas.

• Slavery was to be allowed in Texas but NOT California

Why was slavery nearly nonexistent in the Northern states by the time that the Civil War began?

• Northern farmers were poor and could not afford slaves.

• Most Northern states outlawed slavery after a series of slave rebellions.

• The industrial economies of the Northern states was not suited to slave labor.

• Christian leaders in the North pressed state lawmakers to outlaw slavery on moral grounds.

Using the poster above, why would free blacks in Boston be afraid?

• Southern slaves would try to catch them.

• They were protected by the mayor.

• They could be kidnapped as slaves.

• Southern slaves would bring them to the South.

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 gave the government the financial and physical responsibility of —

• capturing and returning slaves to their owners..

• educating fugitive slaves in ways to evade capture.

• providing fugitive slaves with food, clothing, and shelter.

• establishing labor camps in which to detain runaway slaves.

In the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, the United States Supreme Court decided that —

• F.

  Dred Scott should be returned to free territory.

• slavery should be banned in the United States.

• slaves were not American citizens and had no rights.

• once inside a non-slave state or territory all people are free

The poster above reflects opposition to federal enactment of the —

• Black Codes

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Jim Crow legislation

• Missouri Compromise