Sectionalism

Henry Clay believed the South should accept the compromise of 1850 because -

• Our nation would be preserved as one

• It would give the nation the Fugitive Slave Laws

• California would be a slave state

• Native American lands would be given to Anglo farmers

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What was a major effect of Lincoln being elected as president in 1860?

• Ulysses S. Grant becomes general of the Union Army

• The 13th amendment is passed by Congress

• South Carolina secedes from the Union

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act results in bloodshed

How did Northerners respond to the operations of the Fugitive-Slave Law?

• Joining the Abolition Movement

• Writing letter to their congressmen supporting this law

• Enlisting in the military to fight against the southern slave holders

• Moving o Mexico where slavery was illegal

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How is Jefferson Davis significant to American History?

• He served as a congressman from Massachusetts

• He worked to get California admitted to the Union as a free state

• He made the Supreme Court ruling on the Dred Scott V. Sandford case

• He served as the president of the Confederate States of America

What two things made up the Compromise of 1850

• South Carolina Secedes and The protective tariff is abolished

• The Dred Scott and Marbury case

• Missouri and the 36 30 line

• The free state of California and Fugitive Slave Law

What region had an economy based on mining and agriculture?

• The Central Region

• The Northern Region

• The Western Region

• The Southern Region

What was the North doing economically during 1850?

• Agriculture

• Fur Trading

• Mining

• Factories

One result of the Kansas-Nebraska act waw

• Americans were united over the democratic process

• Americans fought against each other over the issue of slavery

• African Americans were ruled to be propety

• Slavery was outlawed across the United States

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Ft. Sumter was the cause of what major event?

• abolishing slavery

• forming of the Confederacy

• starting the Civil War

• Abraham Lincoln elected as President

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Slave labor in the 1850s was primarily used in the South to -

• Work on cotton plantations

• Operate machinery in factories

• Construct roads and canals for transportation

• Build ships and military forts