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WorksheetsUnit 4 Topic 2 Sectionalism
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 13mins
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 *****.
Sectionalism
Secession
Suffrage
Industrialization
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.
Rich and Poor
North and South
East and West
Immigrants and Natives
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.
Supreme Court
White House
Senate
Constitution
As a result of the Missouri Compromise, ***** would be allowed north of 36°30’N in the Louisiana Territory.
Slavery
No Slavery
No immigration
Women’s suffrage
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.
Holiday
Tariff
Impressment
Abolition
In the ***** Crisis, South Carolina pushed to allow a state to not follow the federal tariff that hurt that state financially.
Nullification
Alien and Sedition
Senate
Rebellion
In the Compromise of 1850, Southern states demanded that a stronger ***** Law be added.
Fugitive Slave
Transcontinental Railroad
Immigration Restriction
Federal Tariff
In the Compromise of 1850, Northern States demanded that California become a ***** state.
Slave
Free
Mexican
Canadian
In the Compromise of 1850, ***** was canceled in Washington, DC.
all slavery
the slave trade
The Fugitive Slave Act
The Underground Railroad
The Fugitive Slave Acts were laws that made it illegal to help ***** slaves.
Runaway
Jailed
Religious
Northern
Since the Fugitive Slave Laws angered people in the North, many opponents to these laws joined the *****.
Nativists
Abolitionists
Temperance movement
Militia
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the residents of the Kansas and Nebraska territories to use ***** (vote) to determine if they would allow slavery.
popular sovereignty
Free land
Manifest Destiny
River travel
“Border Ruffians” crossed into Kansas and Nebraska to illegally vote for or against slavery. ***** broke out in Kansas giving it the nickname “Bleeding Kansas”.
Celebrations
Violence
Disease
Tornadoes
***** was a slave from Missouri who sued for his freedom in the US Supreme Court.
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Dred Scott
Sojourner Truth
Which of these was a result of the Dred Scott court case? (choose 3)
he must remain a slave
the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
Dred and Harriet Scott were free
Congress had no power to ban or allow slavery in any territory.
Slavery ended forever
The Republican Party started as a political party to be the champions of liberty. They were *****.
Pro-slavery
Anti-slavery
Many Southern lawmakers believe that:
*states should have the right to make laws about slavery.
*federal laws should not restrict slavery.
*?????
Slaves were property
Slaves were people
Slaves should be able to vote
Slaves were citizens
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
Revolts
Economic activity
Reforms
Temperance
Although importing slaves was outlawed in the early 1800s, Louisiana, like other states, continued to add new slaves from *****. (choose 2)
Underground Railroad
domestic slave trade
Immigration
illegally smuggle slaves into the USA
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.
Suffrage act
Pirate Navy
Militia
Native American Tribe
As a result of the German Coast Uprising, Louisiana increased its militia presence because plantation owners *****.
feared future uprisings
worried about ghosts
needed new workers
***** was the leader of one of the bloodiest slave rebellions in American history. In his rebellion, 60 people were killed in Virginia.
Nat Turner
Frederick Douglass
John Brown
Dred Scott
***** was a former slave who wrote about his true story in his autobiography “Narrative of the Life of *****, An American Slave”.
Nat Turner
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Dred Scott
In the Missouri Compromise, the two states that added to the country were ***** and *****.
Missouri
Mississippi
Maryland
Maine
Montana
