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Unit 4 Topic 2 Sectionalism

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Differences in economic, social, and political views that led to areas showing loyalty to a specific region of a country rather than the country as a whole is known as *****.

a)

Sectionalism

b)

Secession

c)

Suffrage

d)

Industrialization

2.

The conflict between the ***** and the ***** over issues such as slavery, states' rights, and tariffs contributed to sectionalism that will lead to the Civil War.

a)

Rich and Poor

b)

North and South

c)

East and West

d)

Immigrants and Natives

3.

When Missouri wanted to join the USA as a slave state, Congress agreed ONLY if Maine could join as a free state at the same time. This would keep balance in the ***** between slave and free states.

a)

Supreme Court

b)

White House

c)

Senate

d)

Constitution


4.

As a result of the Missouri Compromise, ***** would be allowed north of 36°30’N in the Louisiana Territory.

a)

Slavery

b)

No Slavery

c)

No immigration

d)

Women’s suffrage

5.

A federal ***** (tax on imports) was passed in 1828 to protect Northern textile factories from foreign competition. European countries who had to pay this tax started buying less cotton from the Southern plantations.

a)

Holiday

b)

Tariff

c)

Impressment

d)

Abolition

6.

In the ***** Crisis, South Carolina pushed to allow a state to not follow the federal tariff that hurt that state financially.

a)

Nullification

b)

Alien and Sedition

c)

Senate

d)

Rebellion

7.

In the Compromise of 1850, Southern states demanded that a stronger ***** Law be added.

a)

Fugitive Slave

b)

Transcontinental Railroad

c)

Immigration Restriction

d)

Federal Tariff

8.

In the Compromise of 1850, Northern States demanded that California become a ***** state.

a)

Slave

b)

Free

c)

Mexican

d)

Canadian

9.

In the Compromise of 1850, ***** was canceled in Washington, DC.

a)

all slavery

b)

the slave trade

c)

The Fugitive Slave Act

d)

The Underground Railroad

10.

The Fugitive Slave Acts were laws that made it illegal to help ***** slaves.


a)

Runaway 


b)

Jailed

c)

Religious

d)

Northern

11.

Since the Fugitive Slave Laws angered people in the North, many opponents to these laws joined the *****.

a)

Nativists

b)

Abolitionists

c)

Temperance movement

d)

Militia

12.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the residents of the Kansas and Nebraska territories to use ***** (vote) to determine if they would allow slavery.

a)

popular sovereignty

b)

Free land

c)

Manifest Destiny

d)

River travel

13.

“Border Ruffians” crossed into Kansas and Nebraska to illegally vote for or against slavery. ***** broke out in Kansas giving it the nickname “Bleeding Kansas”.

a)

Celebrations

b)

Violence

c)

Disease

d)

Tornadoes

14.

***** was a slave from Missouri who sued for his freedom in the US Supreme Court.


a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Dred Scott

d)

Sojourner Truth

15.

Which of these was a result of the Dred Scott court case? (choose 3)

a)

he must remain a slave

b)

the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional

c)

Dred and Harriet Scott were free

d)

Congress had no power to ban or allow slavery in any territory.

e)

Slavery ended forever

16.

The Republican Party started as a political party to be the champions of liberty. They were *****.

a)

Pro-slavery

b)

Anti-slavery

17.

 Many Southern lawmakers believe that:

*states should have the right to make laws about slavery. 

*federal laws should not restrict slavery. 

*?????


a)

Slaves were property

b)

Slaves were people

c)

Slaves should be able to vote

d)

Slaves were citizens

18.

Slave Codes, laws meant to control staves and prevent *****, included rules like:

•      slaves could not learn to read/write

•      owners could whip their slaves

•      slaves needed permission to leave the plantation and to get married

•      slaves could not own property or buy/sell goods


a)

Revolts

b)

Economic activity

c)

Reforms

d)

Temperance

19.

Although importing slaves was outlawed in the early 1800s, Louisiana, like other states, continued to add new slaves from *****. (choose 2)


a)

Underground Railroad

b)

domestic slave trade

c)

Immigration

d)

illegally smuggle slaves into the USA

20.

The largest slave rebellion in the United States happened in Louisiana’s German Coast region in 1811. Over 200 slaves revolted and killed 2 people. A ***** was sent to end the rebellion.

a)

Suffrage act

b)

Pirate Navy

c)

Militia

d)

Native American Tribe

21.

As a result of the German Coast Uprising, Louisiana increased its militia presence because plantation owners *****.

a)

feared future uprisings

b)

worried about ghosts

c)

needed new workers

22.

***** was the leader of one of the bloodiest slave rebellions in American history. In his rebellion, 60 people were killed in Virginia.

a)

Nat Turner

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

John Brown

d)

Dred Scott

23.

***** was a former slave who wrote about his true story in his autobiography “Narrative of the Life of *****, An American Slave”.

a)

Nat Turner

b)

William Lloyd Garrison

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Dred Scott

24.

In the Missouri Compromise, the two states that added to the country were ***** and *****.

a)

Missouri

b)

Mississippi

c)

Maryland

d)

Maine

e)

Montana