Unit 4

The Nullification Crisis of 1832 centered around

• the annexation of Texas.

• Jackson's War on the Bank.

• decreased trade with France.

• southern opposition to tariffs.

How did the Missouri Compromise deal with the issue of slavery?

• It required all territories to abolish slavery before becoming states.

• It made the Mississippi River the dividing line between slave states and free states.

• It prohibited slavery in most of the former Louisiana Territory except for Missouri.

• It stated that all future states would be required to be slave states except for Missouri.

Nullification was a theory espoused by John C. Calhoun which stated that states had the right to do what?

• get rid of unwanted national bureaucracy

• decide which national laws states would accept

• determine if they wanted to remain in the Union

• refuse to use the paper money issued by the Federal government

The political conflict in surrounding the Compromise of 1850 showed that people in the United States

• were opposed to westward expansion.

• continued to be divided on the issue of slavery.

• were consumed by the desire to "get rich quick" from gold mining.

• believed Native Americans should be forced to live on reservations.

The Georgia Platform succeeded in saving the Union from collapse by

• quieting radicals who wanted to secede after the Compromise of 1850.

• balancing the number of slave states with the number of free states.

• threatening a Civil War if the North decided to secede from the Union.

• establishing the guidelines for the creation of the Compromise of 1850.

Which of these conclusions can be drawn for information in the chart?

• The South had more enslaved people living in rural areas than the North.

• People who were enslaved could more easily become free in the North than in the South.

• Enslaved people in the North had better lives than those living in the South.

• The South had a proportionally higher concentration of slave owners.

Which issue played the GREATEST role in dividing the North and South in the years leading up to the Civil War?

• slavery

• foreign trade

• Indian removal

• war with Mexico

Which term refers to the idea that Southern states had the authority to make their own laws regarding slavery?

• secession

• sectionalism

• states' rights

• equal protection

Which two issues played the GREATEST roles in causing the Civil War?

• slavery and states' rights

• Manifest Destiny and Indian Removal

• the Missouri Compromise and the California Gold Rush

• the election of James K. Polk and the Northwest Ordinance

Which term refers to the growing cultural and economic differences between the North and South in the years leading up to the Civil War?

• Imperialism

• Nationalism

• Sectionalism

• Manifest Destiny