Unit 5 Assessment Review

What is sectionalism?

• When people of a country are united around a common cause

• When people from different regions of a country care more about their region than the unity of the country

• When the economy hits a downturn because of a lack of trade between regions

• When there are parts of the country that separate (secede)

What did the north and the south try to keep balanced as the country expanded westward?

• the number of free and slave states

• the rates of tariffs

• the population of the states

• the costs of trade between regions

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Ended slavery in the South

• Banned slavery in new territories

• Created the Republican Party

• Introduced popular sovereignty to unorganized territories

What was decided in the Supreme Court case of Dred Scott v. Sanford?

• Slaves who were taken into free Northern states could not be taken back into the South and enslaved again

• Slavery was a violation of First Amendment rights

• Slaves were not permitted to serve in the United States Army

• Slaves had no citizen rights and were not protected by the Constitution

In the North, the most disturbing outcome (for Northerners) of the Compromise of 1850 was

• New Mexico and Utah becoming free states

• Banning of slavery in the District of Columbia

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• California being admitted as a free state

In 1860 and 1861 seven Southern states seceded from the Union in protest of

• The election of Republican Abraham Lincoln

• John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

• The beating of Charles Sumner

• The Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision

Why is the battle of Fort Sumter significant?

• It was the final battle of the Civil War

• It was the largest battle of the Civil War

• It was the turning point for the North in the Civil War

• It was the first battle of the Civil War

This abolitionist took part in "Bleeding Kansas" and led a raid on Harper's Ferry, VA

• Dred Scott

• Jefferson Davis

• John Brown

• Abraham Lincoln

This was the first state to secede when Abraham lincoln was elected president

• North Carolina

• South Carolina

• Missouri

• Alabama

Which economy relied heavily on Industrialization and paid labor

• North

• South

• West