Sectionalism Westward Expansion

Which of these attributes describe the South? (Choose 2)

• Supported abolition

• Established manufacturing

• Depended on slavery

• Multiple Plantations

Why was the US involved in the conflicts with Mexico and Texas?

(Choose 2)

• It was part of moving west

• Removing Indians

• Removing slavery

• Border Disputes between Mexico and Texas

These headlines refer to the decision in which Supreme Court case?

• McCulloch V Maryland

• Gibbons V Ogden

• Dred Scott V Sandford

• Worcester V Georgia

This compromise would admit California as a free state a year after the gold rush, and enact the Fugitive Slave Act:

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Nullification Crisis

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was an attempt to resolve which of the following issues?

• The awarding of land grants to settlers

• The building of a transcontinental railroad system

• The expansion of slavery into the western territories

• The regulation of new businesses in the western territories

What land mass does river #3 run through? _{(click here to see the map)}

• Mexican Cession

• Texas Annexation

• Original 13 Colonies

• Louisiana Purchase

The Gadsden Purchase was intended to-

• support the settlement of US citizens by simplifying construction of the railroad

• encourage commerce among US states formed from the Louisiana Purchase

• allow the US and Mexico to share railroad construction costs

• encourage the sale of US government land in florida

The 36 30 line only considered new states that would form in...

• lands above Texas

• the Mexican Cession

• the Middle East
• the Louisiana Purchase territory

What movement is described by the idea of moving west?

• Manifest Destiny

• Transcendentalism

• Manifest Conquest

• Romanticism

Which of the following political actions did NOT further sectionalism ideas prior to the Civil War?

• Dred Scott v. Sanford decision

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Great Compromise