Sectionalism

By 1860, the North's Economy was based on-

• industry, manufacturing and selling goods

• slavery based agriculture

• the domestic trade of the enslaved

By 1860, the South's economy was dependent upon-

• slavery due to increased cotton production

• shipbuilding and lumbering

• taxation

The North favored high protective tariffs to protect northern goods from foreign competition

• True

• False

The South opposed high tariffs that made the price of imports more expensive

• True

• False

The Missouri Compromise (1820), the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) were all efforts to

• end fighting between mid-western farmers and Native Americans

• encourage manufacturing in the West

• increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections

• settle disputes over the spread of slavery to western territories

Which part of the Compromise of 1850 probably created the most controversy?

• the admission of California as a free state

• the organization of New Mexico and Utah as territories open to slavery

• the ending of the slave trade in Washington, D.C.

• the passage of a strong fugitive slave law to return runaway slaves to their owners

What was the purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• to admit Kansas as a free state and Nebraska as a slave state

• to allow the citizens to decide if a state would be a free state or a slave state

• to allow border ruffians to vote in Kansas elections to promote slavery

• to negotiate a deal for territory with Native Americans in Oklahoma

Who led the slave revolts in Virginia?

• Andrew Jackson and Andrew Johnson

• Gabriel Prosser and Nat Turner

• William Loyd Garrison and Harriet Beecher Stowe

Which abolitionist published The Liberator and called out the institution of slavery as a violation of Christian principles

• Harriet Tubman

• William Lloyd Garrsion

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

In the 1850s, the phrase "Bleeding Kansas" was used to describe clashes between

• pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas Territory

• Native Americans and new American settlers

• Chinese and Irish railroad workers clashing over wages

• freed slaves and white settlers out west fighting over slavery