Quiz 12 Study Guide

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)

Why did westward expansion increase tension between the North and the South?

• They had different opinions on if war was necessary with other countries

• They had different opinions on treatment of Native Americans

• As new states were added representation would change and each region wanted to maintain their power in Congress

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

Who led the raid on Harpers Ferry trying to start a slave rebellion?

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Brown

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Abraham Lincoln

Who benefited most from the use of slavery throughout the South?

• factor workers

• subsistence farmers

• indentured servants

• plantation owners

Who wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Brown

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Abraham Lincoln

The economy of this are area is mainly agricultural - farming.

• The South

• The North

The economy of this are area is mainly industrialization - factories and manufacturing.

• The South

• The North

Which part of the Compromise of 1850 received the most support from Southern plantation owners?

• the use of popular sovereignty to determine the issue of slavery in new territories

• the admission of California to the Union as a free state

• the end of slave trade in Washington, D.C.

• the passage of a strict fugitive slave law

The Missouri Compromise tried to maintain the balance between slave states and free states.

• True

• False