Module 17 - A Divided Nation - Essential People, Events & Vocab

​ (a)   is the idea that political authority (the right to decide on issues and laws) belongs to the citizens, or people, of a state or nation.

• Popular Sovereignty
• Sectionalism
• Secession

The Wilmot Proviso was a proposed law that would have outlawed slavery in any territory added to the United States from the ​ (a)   . It passed in the House of Representatives but failed in the Senate.

• Mexican Cession
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• The Gasden Act

A devotion to the interests of one geographic region of the nation over having the interests of the nation as a whole is referred to as ​ (a)  

• sectionalism.
• seceding
• abolition
• abolitionism

​ ​The Democrat's candidate for the US Presidential election in 1852 was (a)   . Even though he was from New Hampshire, most of his support came from the Southern states. He won the election and became the 14th President of the United States.

• Franklin Pierce
• Abraham Lincoln
• James Buchanan

​ ​ (a)   was a US Senator from Illinois who was determined to build a railroad to the Pacific Ocean; he was also the author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act - a law that proposed each state be able to decide the issue of slavery.

• Stephen Douglas
• Abraham Lincoln
• Anthony Burns
• Franklin Pierce

Which of the following factors caused the Southern states to secede?

• California Gold Rush

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Sectionalism

• A more strict Fugitive Slave Act is passed

• Stephen Douglas supported popular sovereignty

Which of the following factors caused the Southern states to secede?

• Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th US President in 1860

• Kansas-Nebraska Act - 1854

• Harriet Beecher Stowe writes

  Aunt Suzy's Motel

• A new political party forms: The Free-Soil Party

• A new Fugitive Slave Act is passed in 1850

In this law, the ​ (a)   , the states of Kansas and Nebraska would be carved from the remaining areas of the Louisiana Territory. This law, signed in to law by President ​ (b)   , would eliminate the prohibition rules for slavery passed earlier in the ​ (c)   .

• Kanas-Nebraska Act
• Franklin Pierce
• Compromise of 1850

A political party that was formed by anti-slavery Northerners who had left the Whig and Democratic political parties; they were strongly against the practice of slavery.

• The Know-Nothings

• Constitutional Union Party

• Free-Soil Party

• The Factory Party

To formally withdraw from the union of states; for a state to leave the nation, is to ​ (a)   .

• secede
• embargo
• abolish