Sectionalism & Civil War

Match the following

• agreement that attempted to solve slavery issue, violence erupted as a result of law

• Fugitive Slave Law

• California is a free state and Fugitive Slave Law is passed

• Compromise of 1850

• ruled slaves were property and not citizens, later the 14th Amendment gave citizenship to all

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• part of the Compromise of 1850, runaway slaves were to be captured and returned to the South

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Which section was based on a mining economy?

Which section was based on a cash crop/agriculture economy?

Which section was based on an industrial economy?

What was the Compromise of 1850?

• North and South agreed that California would be a free state and a Fugitive Slave Law was passed

• Established to maintain a balance of power between the North and South.

• Territories were allowed to decide whether to be a free or slave state.

• Declared that African Americans were not citizens and could not sue in federal court.

What was the Fugitive Slave Law?

• Part of the Compromise of 1850, runaway slaves had to be returned to the south

• Ruled that slaves were property and not citizens

• A law that prohibited the transportation of slaves across state lines

• Slaves were allowed to run to the free, northern states

The election of which president was a cause of the Civil War?

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• Thomas Jefferson

• Andrew Jackson

The ​ (a)   preferred higher tariffs because it made American products cheaper than foreign products.

• Northern States
• Southern States
• Western States

The South was afraid ​ (a)   would ​ (b)   slavery when he was elected because he was from the northern states.

• Abraham Lincoln
• abolish
• increase
• Jefferson Davis

Place the characteristics in the correct sections.

c

d

e

f

b

a

Agriculture economy

Fertile soil

Rocky soil

Industrial economy

Wanted more federal power

Wanted more states' rights