Review- Sectionalism

What is the Missouri Compromise?

• Rewarding supporters with Government jobs

• Maintains the balance of power between slave and free states

• South Carolina attempts to cancel a federal law and threatens to secede

• Helped fugitive slaves get to the North and Canada

John C Calhoun was the Leader of the...

• West, proposed the Missouri Compromise, supported tariffs

• South, defended slavery and state's rights, opposed tariffs

• North, focused on Manufacturing, anti-slavery

Which of the following is true about the Missouri Compromise?

• The Compromise made it so there were the same number of slave and free states.
• The Compromise upset the balance of power between free states and slave states in the Senate.
• The Compromise was liked by Northerners, but not Southerners.
• The Compromise solved all future issues regarding new states.

California was admitted to the Union as a ________________.

• state that allowed slavery

• state that allowed slavery in only its southern areas.

• state that did not allow slavery

• state that allowed slavery in only its northern areas.

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

This was a mini-Civil War fought in the Kansas territory between pro-slavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers 

• Missouri Compromise 
• Summer if 1856
• Bleeding Kansas
• Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas

This law (act) opened the Kansas and Nebraska territory to being possible slave states 

• Fugitive Slave Act 
• Bleeding Kansas
• Missouri Compromise 
• Kansas-Nebraska Act 

What is popular sovereignty?

• Where sovereignty is left to the government to decide

• Where sovereignty is left to the people to decide

What does the term "abolish" mean?

• to start up again

• put an end to

• agree with someone

• disagree with someone

Who escaped slavery and fled to Pennsylvania, became a conductor of the Underground Railroad and freed over 300 slaves?

• Rosa Parks

• Harriet Tubman

• Susan B. Anthony

• Frederick Douglas