Civil War Day 1 Warm-Up

Founded for Catholics seeking religious freedom

• California Gold Rush
• Maryland
• Missouri Compromise
• Southern economy

Plantation system, slave labor; cotton produced and sent to Northern factories

• California Gold Rush
• Maryland
• Missouri Compromise
• Southern economy

Population increased; Chinese immigrants came and faced discrimination

• California Gold Rush
• Maryland
• Missouri Compromise
• Southern economy

Temporarily relieved sectional differences by maintaining the balance between the number of free and slave states in the Union

• California Gold Rush
• Maryland
• Missouri Compromise
• Southern economy

The best selection to complete 5 is -

• abolitionist rights
• states’ rights
• homestead rights

The best selection to complete 6 is -

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Declaration of Independence

Which statement describes how the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 increased sectionalism?

• It allowed slavery to expand into the territories.
• It gave tax cuts to manufacturers who relocated to the territories.
• It allowed slaves who escaped to the territories to purchase their freedom.
• It granted homesteads to immigrants who settled in the territories.

This table shows the population of enslaved people in two regions of the United States in 1840. Which statement describes a factor that MOST contributed to the population difference shown in the table?

• The South had a society that relied on wage labor.
• The South had an economy that relied on cotton.
• The South had a variety of natural resources.
• The South had an abundance of large cities.