Sectionalism Review

Who is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Brown

• Dred Scott

What was the main economic activity in the Industrial North?

• Agriculture

• Gold mining

• Ranching

• Manufacture of goods in factories

What law made it a crime to help runaway slaves?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

What was the 'driving force' of the Southern economy?

• Tobacco

• Indigo

• Cotton

• Rice

What did the Missouri Compromise achieve?

• Ended the Civil War

• Admitted California as a free state

• Allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in the North

• Kept equal representation of slave and free states in the Senate

What was the main cause of the Civil War according to the acronym 'TISSUES'?

• Suffrage

• Immigration

• Tariffs

• Slavery

Who was elected President in 1860, leading to heightened sectional tensions?

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Andrew Johnson

• Stephen Douglas

• Abraham Lincoln

This compromise admitted one slave state, and one free state. Additionally, it designated the status of future states in the region as off limits to slavery or open to slavery.

• Maine Compromise

• Louisiana Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

This compromise admitted California as a free state a year after the gold rush:

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Nullification Crisis

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

This compromise dealt with the issue of slavery in the Louisiana Purchase, where the issue had already been decided previously.

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Nullification Act

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act