Sectionalism Review

This excerpt explains that the Republican Party desired -

• to expand the territory of American to the Pacific Ocean
• to give citizens free land to settle territory that has not yet become a state
• to prevent slavery from spreading to territories in the United States
• to start a nation separate from the southern states

Henry Clay believed the South should accept the Compromise of 1850 because -

• the U.S. would be preserved as one
• California would be a slave state
• Native American lands would be given to Anglo farmers
• it would give the nation the Fugitive Slave Law

Jefferson Davis is significant to American history because he -

• worked to get California admitted to the Union as a free state
• made the Supreme Court ruling on the Dred Scott v. Sandford case
• served as the president of the Confederate States of America
• served as a congressman from Massachusetts

According to this excerpt Abraham Lincoln holds that -

• slavery should be allowed to spread to western territories
• the Unites States should seek to acquire more land from Mexico
• the 13 Colonies should not have seceded from Britain
• despite differences all states must remain a part of the Union

In this excerpt the Supreme Court ruled that African Americans -

• were no longer legal property of their former masters
• legally had the right to suffrage in federal elections
• did not have legal rights or protections in federal courts
• had the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

One result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was -

• Americans were united over the democratic process
• slavery was outlawed across the United States
• Americans fought against each other over the issue of slavery
• African Americans were ruled to be property

According to this political cartoon, what was one of the major reasons for the Civil War?

• Slavery
• Tariffs
• Industrialization
• The Compromise of 1850

How did the growth of slavery in the mid-1800s lead to the Civil War? Select TWO correct answers.

• Abolitionists traveled to the South and burned many cotton plantations to free slaves.
• The Republican Party was created to challenge the issue of allowing slavery in western territories.
• Southerners argued that the federal government could not interfere with the South’s right to keep slaves.
• The Democratic Party prevented Abraham Lincoln from taking the presidency and expanding slavery.

The Republican Party was founded on the basis that -

• slavery be allowed in every state
• tariffs should be lowered to increase competition
• African Americans are citizens
• slavery should not spread outside the South

This headline would have been published after the -

• Thirteenth Amendment was ratified
• Election of 1860
• Dred Scott v. Sandford court case
• Compromise of 1850