Assignment: Sectionalism, Day 3, Grade 8

What is the title of the thinking box?

This group felt that slavery was…

• necessary for economic growth

• morally wrong

• a divine institution

• a temporary evil

The ​ (a)   reform movement would have supported the ​ (b)   party.

• Green

• Libertarian

• Abolition
• Republican
• Temperance
• Labor

Why do you think Southerners feared the election of a Republican president?
(Sentence stem: Southerners feared a Republican president because ….)     

Which statements explain the ruling in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case? Select TWO correct answers.

• The Supreme Court ruled that northern abolitionists could not move into western territories.

• The Supreme Court ruled that enslaved persons had no rights in federal courts.

• The Supreme Court ruled that women had more rights than enslaved people.

• The Supreme Court ruled that neither Congress nor a territory had the power to ban slavery.

What was the ruling in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case AND how did it affect the United States?

   (Sentence stem: The ruling in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case determined that ……  This affected the United States by ….)

Match the following.

• popular sovereignty

• Under the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the issue of slavery in the territories was decided by ______

• South

• The geography and climate of the ____led

  to an economy based on agriculture.

• Second Great Awakening

• a movement that encouraged people to be more religious and to focus on

  improving society.

• North

• ____ allowed California to enter the U.S. as a free state and passed a strict Fugitive Slave Law.

• the Compromise of 1850

• An expanding railroad system and industrialization resulted in many factories

  in the ____

The ___________________________ prohibited colonists from moving west of Appalachian Mountains, but colonists ignored.