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American Sectionalism

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Created Nebraska and Kansas as soon to be states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

d)

Declaration of Independence

2.

Escaped slave and great black abolitionist who fought to end slavery through political action

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Dred Scott

d)

Stephen Douglas

3.

Agreement that admitted California as a free state, popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah Territory and banned slave trade in DC.

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

c)

Compromise of 1850

d)

Louisiana Purchase

4.

a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North.

a)

Underground Railroad

b)

Aboveground Railroad

c)

Insidetheground Railroad

d)

Groundless Railroad

5.

Battle between Texans and Mexico in 1836, fought in modern day San Antonio.

a)

Iwo Jima

b)

Lexington and Concord

c)

The Alamo

d)

Valley Forge

6.

United States slave who sued for freedom after living in a non-slave state

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Michael Scott

d)

Dred Scot

7.

United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland, created the Underground Railroad.

a)

Dred Scott

b)

Michael Scott

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Frederick Douglass

8.

A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders

a)

Supremacy Clause

b)

1st Amendment

c)

Fugitive Slave Act

d)

Stamp Act

9.

Loyalty to one's own region (like north or south) of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole

a)

Sectionalism

b)

Loyalty

c)

Regionalism

d)

Pride

10.

A person who wanted to end slavery

a)

Revolutionary

b)

Traitor

c)

Warrior

d)

Abolitionist