Worksheets2022 STAAR Review, Day 8: Sectionalism
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
What was the fundamental question addressed in each of these congressional acts?
Should the U.S. expand westward?
Should states be allowed to nullify federal laws?
Should slave labor be allowed in new states?
Should states be able to secede from the Union
Which of the following was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
Fighting broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas
Kansas entered the Union as a slave state through popular sovereignty in 1856
Nebraskan settlers who supported abolition moved to Kansas
The boundary established by the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was extended farther south
Which of these directly resulted from the event announced in this headline?
The abolitionist movement gained momentum in the North
Members of the U.S. Senate sought to end Black Codes in the southern states
The federal government allowed the expansion of slaver into all new western territories
Abolitionists moved to the South to avoid living under the new law
Which statement best explains the changes shown in this table?
Slaves from the upper South were moved to the Lower South to work on cotton plantations
The Upper South experienced an agricultural labor shortage in the antebellum period
Slaves were transferred from the Lower South to the Upper South to work in newly built factories
The Lower South lost population as settlers migrated west to establish new plantations
Which of these correctly describes an effect of the Compromise of 1850 on escaped slaves and freedmen?
Members of both groups were captured under the Fugitive Slave Law.
Unlike freedmen, escaped slaves were welcome in the gold mines in California.
Members of both groups could be sold in Washington, D.C. slave markets.
Unlike escaped slaves, freedmen could vote in the territories of the Mexican Cession.
Which outcome best completes this diagram?
American Revolution
Popular Sovereignty
Manifest Destiny
Civil War
Which idea does President Lincoln express in this excerpt?
The Union exists only through the consent of sovereign states.
The Union requires a nationwide decision on slavery.
The Union matters more than the current disagreements between states.
The Union will be preserved through military force if necessary.
One environmental consequence of the large-scale cultivation of cotton in the South was—
widespread soil exhaustion caused by decades of farming
drought caused by overuse of river water to irrigate farmland
air pollution caused by the use of cotton gins
widespread water contamination caused by fertilizer runoff
These headlines refer to the decision in which Supreme Court case?
McCulloch v. Maryland
Gibbons v. Ogden
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Worcester v. Georgia
What was a major result of the Missouri Compromise?
It increased the number of immigrants settling in northern states.
It provided financing for canal construction.
It rapidly expanded railroad construction in southern states.
It temporarily relieved sectional tensions.
Which event argued that a state has the right to overrule an act passed by Congress?
Nullification Crisis
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
South Carolina Compromise
"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe that this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free... It will become all one thing or all the other." - Abraham Lincoln
What was Lincoln discussing in this passage?
The issue of slavery
The idea of secession
The idea of slave rights
Giving slaves citizenship
Which of the following was not a cause of sectionalism in the United States?
Higher tariffs
Popular Sovereignty
States Rights
Slavery being abolished
Which amendment of the U.S. Constitution played a role in the Nullification Crisis?
5th Amendment
7th Amendment
9th Amendment
10th Amendment
What was the main issue being argued during the Webster and Hayne Debates?
slavery
states rights
industry
supreme court
What did South Carolina do that led to the start of the Civil War?
Secede from the Union
Nullify a tariff
Sign a treaty with Mexico
Change their state name
What events had happened prior to Abraham Lincoln taking his oath of office and delivering his inaugural address.?
Eleven southern states secede from the Union
Seven southern states secede from the Union
The Emancipation Proclamation was written
Uncle Tom's Cabin became the book of the nation
