Unit 3A: Statehood and Sectionalism

What was the biggest problem facing the US after acquiring the Mexican Cession?

• Deciding whether the new territories should be slave or free states

• Deciding whether to share the new territories with Great Britain

• Deciding whether to grant Mexicans living in the cession area citizenship

• Deciding how to pay Mexico for the land

Which of the following represents an ECONOMIC reason Texas might secede from the US and join the Confederacy?

• The Confederacy offered to pay Texas 15 million dollars

• Texas wanted to free all slaves so they could work in factories

• Texas wanted to invade Mexico for its natural resources

• Texas had many slave plantations and wanted to protect its source of money

Why was the US eager to annex Texas?

• The US was scared that Texas would become a mighty empire and competitor

• The US was worried Mexico would re-conquer Texas

• The US saw Texas as another step towards making Manifest Destiny a reality

• The US wanted to trade Texas for Oregon Country

All of the following were reasons some Americans did not want to annex Texas EXCEPT:

• It would provoke a war with Mexico

• Texas was in debt and annexation would cost too much money

• Annexation would unfairly displace large numbers of Native Americans

• It would add a slave state

The North relied heavily upon an _____ based economy while the South were devoted heavily to an _____ economy.

• Agricultural, Industrial

• Export, Production

• Industrial, Import

• Industrial, Agricultural

What was the primary purpose of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

• To establish a border between slave states and free states.

• To establish a border between Northern States and Southern States.

• To establish a border between the United States and Mexico.

• To maintain the balance between free and slave states.

This law required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves and made it a federal crime to assist runaway

• The Runaway Slave Law

• The Underground Railroad Law

• The Slave Report Law

• The Fugitive Slave Law

This event was a result of voting fraud and unrest that was taking place due to the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

• Bleeding Nebraska

• Bleeding Plains

• Bleeding Kansas

• Bleeding Heart

Southerners believed their states' rights were being violated by the Federal government. These rights were about:

• Manifest Destiny

• debt

• taxes (tariffs)

• slavery

What caused the US-Mexican War?

• The discovery of gold reserves in California

• A dispute over the location of the boundary between TX and MX

• MX demanded the return of TX to MX

• MX launched a massive surprise invasion of TX