Nationalism and Sectionalism

When Missouri applied to become a state, there were an equal amount of free and slave states.

• True

• False

Missouri wanted to become a slave state.

• True

• False

The tariff made European goods more _____________ and encouraged Americans to buy cheaper products made in America.

• fun

• desirable

• affordable

• expensive

A tax on imported goods.

• amendment

• trial

• tariff

• export

The Erie Canal was the most successful canal. It connected the ________ to Lake Erie.

• Atlantic Ocean

• Hudson River

• Mississippi River

• Niagara Falls

The establishment of a national bank that would promote a single currency making trade easier.

• True

• False

The Erie Canal greatly increased

• the size of the United States,

• education in the United States.

• trade in the United States.

• the demand for more cotton.

Money made by the tariff made it possible to begin building roads and _____

• canals

• railroads

• freeways

• bridges

Sectionalism - The placing of the interests of one’s own region (area) ahead of the interests of the __________ as a whole.

• world

• city

• universe

• nation

Anti-slavery leaders were afraid that allowing Missouri to enter the union as a slave state would upset what was then a _________ between free and slave states.

• trade

• friendship

• balance

• disagreements