Westward Expansion and Sectionalism

Which region was most opposed to high protective tariffs?

• South

• North

• West

• East

What was a major reason that slavery expanded in the South in the first half of the 1800s?

• Federal government regulations favored Southern exports.

• New inventions led to an increase in cotton production.

• Most early textile mills were built in the South.

• The federal government encouraged the importation of enslaved persons.

The cotton gin advanced the growth of the textile industry because it

• reduced the time needed to plant cotton seeds.

• improved the process of weaving cotton cloth.

• made it possible for unskilled slaves to cultivate cotton.

• provided a faster method of separating seeds from cotton fiber.

In the 1840s, the term Manifest Destiny was used by many Americans to justify

• the extension of slavery into the territories.

• war with Russia over the Oregon territory.

• the acquisition of colonies in Latin America.

• westward expansion into lands claimed by other nations.

In the mid-1800s, growth of the populations of California and the western territories was mainly a result of the

• discovery of gold.

• opening of the Panama Canal.

• migration of freedmen after the Civil War.

• secession of the Southern states.

During the 1840s, abolitionists opposed annexation of new western territory because they

• feared the admission of new slave states.

• wanted to limit the power of the national government.

• were concerned with the legal rights of Native American Indians.

• supported an isolationist foreign policy.

The Missouri Compromise (1820), Compromise of 1850, and Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) were all efforts to

• end fighting between Midwestern farmers and Native American Indians.

• encourage manufacturing in the West.

• increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections.

• settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories.

In the Compromise of 1850 and Kansas/Nebraska Act of 1854, popular sovereignty was proposed as a way to

• allow northern states the power to ban slavery.

• deny southern states the legal right to own slaves.

• allow settlers in new territories to vote on the issue of slavery.

• overturn previous Supreme Court decisions on slavery.

What was the purpose of the Fugitive Slave Law?

• To require slaves to have citizenship papers in order to obtain jobs

• To require the return of runaway slaves to their owners

• To prevent slaves from having group gatherings or meetings

• To prevent slaves from testifying against whites in court trials

As a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which of the following occurred in Kansas?

• Both antislavery and proslavery people moved into Kansas to swing the vote in their favor

• Slavery was outlawed in Kansas because it was above the 1820 Compromise Line

• Kansas became a slave state, even though most people in the state were against slavery

• People moved out of Kansas because they disagreed with the Act.