Slavery and Sectionalism

Which of the following words means that a person places the interests of a small area over the interests of the entire country?

• Nationalism
• Sectionalism
• Popular Sovereignty
• Secession

The Civil War was originally fought over what?

• Slavery
• Taxes
• Secession
• Imports/Exports

What term means the God given right to control everything from sea to sea?

• Proviso
• Popular Sovereignty
• Secession
• Manifest Destiny

Every state north of Missouri's southern border had to be what kind of state?

• Free
• Slave
• Territory
• Sovereign

Where was it important to keep an equal amount of free and slave states?

• Supreme Court
• Congress
• Governors
• Western Territories

Was the Missouri Compromise strictly enforced?

• Yes
• No

Who was the senator from Massachusetts that was beaten with a cane on the floor of congress by another congressman because he was speaking poorly about slave owners?

• Preston Brooks
• Abraham Lincoln
• Stephan A. Douglas
• Charles Sumner

What idea was introduced by the Compromise of 1850?

• Popular Sovereignty
• Sucession
• Limited Government
• Fugitive Slave Law

What word means that the people have the power to choose their own government and they give it power to make appropriate laws?

• Union
• Popular Sovereignty
• Secession
• Referendum

What states were granted popular sovereignty by the Compromise of 1850?

• Northern States
• Southern States
• New States
• All States