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Unit 5 Sectionalism Test Review Fall 25

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which movement is the cartoonist supporting in this political cartoon?

a)

Public Education

b)

Manifest Destiny

c)

Abolition

d)

Temperance

2.

"Supervised by [Elizabeth Cady Stanton], they drafted a 'Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions' paraphrasing the Declaration of Independence. The document declared that, 'all men and women are created equal'... These natural rights belong equally to women and men..."

What is being referenced in the Declaration of Sentiments according to this secondary source?

a)

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and the power of state's rights

b)

The Declaration of Independence and the natural rights of all people

c)

The Bill of Rights and its protection of rights for all American citizens

d)

The Common School Movement and its guarantees for education for all students

3.

Which group was MOST responsible for the social changes during the Second Great Awakening?

a)

The federal government

b)

The state governments

c)

The influence of foreign nations

d)

Christian groups and churches in America

4.

Which were elements of Perfect Equilibrium to balance North and South in the federal government? Choose all that apply.

a)

The creation of compromises between North and South

b)

A gag rule to prevent the discussion of slavery

c)

Maintaining an equal number of slave and free states

d)

Forcing states in the North to adopt Fugitive Slave Laws

e)

Ending the trans-Atlantic slave trade

5.

"We have done much, but there is much more to be done... We are yet the most oppressed people in the world. In the Southern states of this Union, we are held as slaves. All over that wide region our paths are marked with blood." -Frederick Douglass

In this text, how does Frederick Douglass view the treatment of Blacks in the US?

a)

They have achieved equality

b)

They need to violently resist slavery

c)

They are oppressed and unequal

d)

They need to demand the government create anti-slavery laws

6.

Which image is related to the events of Nat Turner's Rebellion?

a)

b)

c)

d)

7.

According to the map, which territory was closed to slavery by the Missouri Compromise?

a)

Michigan Territory

b)

Unorganized Territory

c)

Arkansas Territory

d)

Oregon Territory

8.

Which line was created as part of the Missouri Compromise to settle future issues related to slavery as America expanded?

a)

54-40 line of latitude

b)

49 line of latitude

c)

36-30 line of latitude

d)

38 line of latitude

9.

"...[I]t surely is to be found...in the manner in which other nations have undertaken to intrude themselves into it...in a spirit of hostile interference against us, for the [stated] object of [stopping] our policy and [limiting] our power, limiting our greatness and checking the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by [God] for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions..." -John O'Sullivan, "On the Annexation of Texas," 1845

Which quote from the excerpt BEST explains why O'Sullivan believes Texas should be annexed?

a)

"spirit of hostile interference against us"

b)

"limiting our greatness"

c)

"[stopping] our policy and [limiting] our power"

d)

"to overspread the continent allotted by [God]"

10.

In the part of Oregon granted to the United States by the compromise with Britain, which city is farthest west?

a)

Astoria

b)

Fort Nez Perce

c)

Fort McLoughlin

d)

Oregon City

11.

Which imagery are symbols of progress and wealth coming from the East in the painting?

a)

Native Americans, buffalo, dangerous animals

b)

The angel Columbia

c)

Cities, trains, farms

d)

Storm clouds and mountains

12.

In American Progress, what do the Native Americans MOST LIKELY represent?

a)

Crimes committed by the US government

b)

Cultural loss caused by Manifest Destiny

c)

A negative way of life being removed by Manifest Destiny

d)

The United States government integrating Indians into American culture

13.

Which event, triggered by the annexation of Texas, led to the Mexican-American War?

a)

The annexation of California by the US

b)

The border dispute between the Nueces River and Rio Grande

c)

The Mexican refusal to recognize American claims to Oregon Territory

d)

The American invasion of northern Mexico at the Battle of Monterrey

14.

What territory was included in the Mexican Cession given to the United States in the Treaty of of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

a)

Oregon and California

b)

California and New Mexico

c)

Texas and California

d)

Texas and New Mexico

15.

What event during the Mexican-American War led to increased Sectionalism between the North and South?

a)

The Wilmot Proviso attempting to ban slavery in territory captured from Mexico

b)

California's insistence on joining the Union as a free state

c)

The demand by Utah and New Mexico Territories to be allowed to have slaves

d)

The attempt by the United States to annex all of Mexico

16.

Which element of the Compromise of 1850 can be viewed as a victory for the South?

a)

Popular sovereignty would be enacted in New Mexico and Utah

b)

California would become a free state

c)

The slave trade would be banned in Washington, DC

d)

The Fugitive Slave Act would force runaway slaves to be returned to the South by the federal government

17.

Which territories were subject to popular sovereignty by the Compromise of 1850? Choose all that apply.

a)

New Mexico

b)

Utah

c)

California

d)

Oregon

e)

Indian

18.

Which option represents the failure of popular sovereignty in the United States?

a)

The Wilmot Proviso

b)

California refusing to accept slavery

c)

War-like conditions in Kansas after the Kansas-Nebraska Act

d)

The repeal of the Missouri Compromise

19.

What precedent of the Missouri Compromise was changed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

a)

There no longer needed to be an equal number of slave states and free states

b)

The 36-30 line no longer determined a territory's slavery status

c)

It forced all US territories to accept slavery

d)

It allowed the House of Representatives to discuss slavery petitions again

20.

Which Supreme Court case opened up all territories in the United States to slavery?

a)

Marbury v. Madison

b)

Scott v. Sandford

c)

Brown v. Board of Education

d)

Gibbons v. Ogden

21.

How is John Brown being portrayed in this propaganda created by a northern journalist in 1863?

a)

As a terrorist who caused the death of several Americans

b)

As a hero willing to die for the cause of abolition

c)

As a racist who thought Black Americans did not deserve rights

d)

As a fool who used violence instead of politics to get his way