Sectionalism and the Road to the Civil War

Who won the election of 1960?

• George Washington

• Millard Fillmore

• Abe Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

Which describes John Brown's attempt to end slavery in the United States?

• He wrote a powerful book about runaways slaves.

• He made speeches and staged marches for abolition.

• He attacked a federal arsenal to encourage a slave revolt.

• He ran for Congress to propose antislavery laws.

How did Harriet Beecher Stowe help increase opposition to slavery?

• by donating money to abolitionist newspapers

• by organizing religious revivals against slavery

• by writing a powerful book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, showing the evils of slavery

• by writing "Civil Disobedience," an essay that describes ways to undermine slavery

Which statement about Harriet Tubman is true?

• She drafted the Seneca Falls Declaration that demanded legal equality for women.

• She led more than 300 slaves to freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

• She wrote a compelling novel about a slave's life on a fictional southern plantation.

• She worked undercover as a journalist to expose unsafe working conditions in mills.

Who was known as the "Great Compromiser"?

• John Adams

• Patrick Henry

• Henry Clay

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

As a condition of the Missouri Compromise slavery ________ north of the 36' 30" line.

• was allowed

• was not allowed

• will be voted on

• will permanently exist

_____________ is the process of people deciding on an issue themselves.

• Federalism

• Checks and balances

• Republicanism

• Popular sovereignty

Where did the first battle of the Civil War take place

• South Carolina

• North Carolina

• Virginia

• Missouri

Loyalty to one's region rather then the whole country.

• Sectionalism
• Patriotism
• Spanishism
• Homieism

Provisions of this compromise when Missouri entered the Union as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state, maintaining the balance between slave and free states

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise