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WorksheetsSectionalism
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which revolution was a key turning point in the sectional crisis?
French Revolution
English Revolution
American Revolution
What two new states signaled the new nations intentions for slavery?
Ohio/Indiana
Kentucky/Vermont
Vermont/Tennessee
Michigan/Wisconsin
What river valley became an early fault line in the coming sectional struggle?
Ohio River
Mississippi River
Chattahoochee River
Hudson River
What argument supported the debate of slavery in the Constitution?
Article 1, Section 2/ 3/5 of a vote
the Constitution never used the word “slave.”
the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment
all of these
What did the Democratic Party offer to white working men of the North, South, and West?
the right to vote
the right to serve on juries
the right to attend public schools
all of these
Who were attacked for supporting the South?
Northern Democrats
Western Republicans
Western Whigs
Who would be a young convert of the Whig party, an admirer of Henry Clay?
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
Daniel Webster
Texas President Sam Houston managed to secure a deal with this pesident, and gained admission to the Union for Texas in 1845.
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
James Polk
Who would submit a bill, banning the expansion of slavery into the territories won from Mexico?
Henry Clay
David Wilmot
John C. Calhoun
What would form the basis for the Free Soil Party?
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
the 1848 Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo
Kansas Nebraska Act
Which state would attempt to form a separate state known as Deseret?
Wisconsin
California
New Mexico
Utah
The Compromise of 1850 only worsened the sectional crisis.
True
False
This antislavery book's sales would only be topped by the Bible.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
To Kill a Mockingbird
Huckleberry Finn
His efforts to organize the Nebraska Territories would break the Democratic Party?
Stephen A. Douglas
Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun
Daniel Webster
His arrest would lead to a U.S. Marshall being shot.
Anthony Burns
Joshua Glover
Amos Adams Lawrence
Who would beat a man with a cane stick on the Senate floor?
John C. Calhoun
Charles Sumner
Preston Brooks
Andrew Butler
Who won the 1856 election?
Republicans-Fremont
Democrats-Buchanan
American-No Nothing-Whig-Fillmore
What case would define Buchanan's Presidency?
Marbury v. Madison
McCulloch v. Maryland
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Plessy v. Ferguson
Who lost the House of Representatives election of 1858 in Illinois?
Stephen Douglas
Ulysses Grant
Abraham Lincoln
James Buchanan
Who would prevent John Brown's raid on a federal weapon’s arsenal in Virginia?
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Ulysses Grantr
