Sectionalism

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

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

Why did the federal government force Natives westward?

• Natives were best suited for inland living.

• Native lands could be used for economic gain.

• Natives had threatened to destroy eastern lands.

• Native lands had been ruined by slash and burn.

What does the term sectionalism mean?

• Loyalty to a particular region instead of the nation as a whole.

• Loyalty to the nation instead of a particular region.

• Loyalty to the section of the nation instead of the region.

• Loyalty to the foreign countries that buy exports instead of the U.S.

What was the Southern point of view about the expansion of slavery?

• They feared the expansion of slavery.

• They feared that if slavery could not expand then eventually slaves would leave plantations.

• They feared that if slavery expanded into the territories that the slave trade would increase.

• They feared that if slavery could not expand then eventually slavery would be outlawed.

All of these attributes describe the South EXCEPT?

• Established manufacturing.

• Depended on slavery.

• Against Abolitionist

• Tended to be Democratic-Republican.

All of these attributes describe the North EXCEPT?

• Typically Federalists.

• Freed their slaves.

• Established trade and small farms.

• Established plantations.

This law required that northern states forcibly returned escaped slaves to their owners.

• Returned Property Ordinance
• Fugitive Slave Law
• Underground Railroad
• Bounty Hunters Alliance