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2/13 Assignment: Sectionalism, Day 2

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 27mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Image - Use the image to help answer the following question.

Who was this poster warning? Make sure you use your notes to answer this.

(sentence stem: This poster is warning about ...)

4 lines
2.

Image - Use the image to help answer the following question.

This poster was addressing which city?

(sentence stem: This poster was addressing the city of ...)

4 lines
3.

Image - Use the image to help answer the following question.

This poster was created in response to a law that had been passed. When was this poster created?

a)

The poster was created in 1920

b)

The poster was created in 1833

c)

The poster was created in 1851

d)

The poster was created in 1840

4.

Image - Use the image to help answer the following question.

Who do you think produced this poster? How do you know?    

(sentence stem: I think the person that produced this poster was…  I know this because…)

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5.

This question is two-parts this question and the following:

This excerpt is from the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Which claim is supported by the excerpt?

a)

The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed people to decide the issue of slavery in the western territories.

b)

The Kansas-Nebraska Act gave tax cuts to free, white males moving out west.

c)

The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed fugitive slaves to buy their freedom.

d)

The Kansas-Nebraska Act gave homestead plots to immigrants moving into the territories.

6.

This excerpt is from the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Which statement provides evidence for the previous question?

a)

...shall be received into the Union with or without slavery...

b)

...free white male inhabitant above the age of twenty-one years...shall be entitled to vote...

c)

...shall be eligible to any office within the said Territory...

d)

...leave the people free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way...

7.

Short Constructed Response - Think about the question carefully.  Then enter your answer to BOTH parts of the question. Be as thorough as you can this is worth 20 points on this assignment.


What was the Compromise of 1850 AND what was included in it to satisfy the demands of the South?

(sentence stem: The compromise of 1850 was…  To satisfy the demands of the South, it included…)


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8.

Review:

The ____________ allows states to have certain powers not given to the federal government.

a)

Tenth Amendment

b)

First Amendment

c)

Second Amendment

d)

Fifth Amendment

9.

Review:

The South believed that each state had the right to ignore federal laws and could ____________ from the U.S. if they wanted to.

a)

Secede

b)

Join

c)

Obey

d)

Unite

10.

Review:

____________ helped to change women’s role in society, including fighting for suffrage.

a)

Susan B. Anthony

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Marie Curie

d)

Florence Nightingale

11.

Review:

____________ helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention and draft the Declaration of Sentiments.

a)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

b)

Susan B. Anthony

c)

Lucretia Mott

d)

Sojourner Truth

12.

Review:

The ____________ provides freedom from cruel and unusual punishment after an arrest.

a)

Eighth Amendment

b)

First Amendment

c)

Second Amendment

d)

Fourth Amendment

13.

Review:

The ____________ was led by Thomas Jefferson and wanted less federal government.

a)

Democratic-Republican Party

b)

Federalist Party

c)

Whig Party

d)

Libertarian Party

14.

Great job today! Exit Pass Part 1:

Match the following

a)

What 1820 compromise kept the balance between free and slave states?


1.

Missouri Compromise

b)

What amendment provides states certain rights?


2.

Tenth Amendment

c)

The United States is split into three sections. 


3.

Sectionalism

d)

What land did the United States receive after the Mexican-American War?


4.

Mexican Cession

15.

Great job today! Exit Pass Part 2:

Match the following

a)

What territory wanted to join the United States as a free state? 


1.

California

b)

What was the law passed that allowed people to vote if they wanted to be a slave/free state? 


2.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

c)

Because of the Kansas-Nebraska Act people flocked to Kansa where violence erupted. This was called ?


3.

Bleeding Kansas

d)

What compromise let California into the U.s.as a free state and added the Fugitive Slave Act?


4.

Compromise of 1850