Unit 10: Sectionalism Question Preview (ID: 50173)


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The Fugitive Slave Act was part of the ______________________ and angered many northerners.
a) The Missouri Compromise
b) The Great Compromise
c) The Compromise 1850
d)

Which statement is true about southern states when Lincoln gave his 1st Inaugural Address?
a) They had already abolished slavery in the south in efforts to avoid civil war
b) Several southern states had already seceded
c) Southern states had nullified the outcome of the Election of 1860
d)

This novel, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, affected how many people in the north viewed the issue of slavery.
a) Uncle Tom's Cabin
b) Uncle Larry's Closet
c) Uncle Tim's Cabinet
d)

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Which person is known as The Great Compromiser and negotiated the Compromise of 1850 and the Missouri Compromise
a) Alexander Hamilton
b) Stephen Douglas
c) Henry Clay
d)

How was the North partly guilty for slavery in the south?
a) Northern factory owners bought cotton for their textile mills and demanded low prices
b) Northerners started slavery in Puritan Massachusetts.
c) People in the north bought goods manufactured in Southern factories.
d)

In his 1st Inaugural Address, how did Lincoln try to convince Southerners that he posed no threat to their way of life?
a) He said he had no reason or legal authority to take away slavery in the south.
b) He promised to never abolish slavery.
c) He said slavery was already decided by the courts in Dred Scott v. Scott
d)

Which WAS NOT an effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
a) Pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers moved into the territories to influence the vote
b) The Missouri Compromise Line became irrelevant
c) Fighting broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers
d) The MIssouri Compromise Line was extended further south

Which region opposed a high tariff on imported goods?
a) The Industrial North
b) The Agricultural South
c) The West
d)

Which amendment did South Carolina use to justify their action to nullify federal law?
a) 9th Amendment - People's Rights
b) 1st Amendment - Freedom of press, religion, speech, protest, and assembly
c) 10th Amendment - States' rights
d)

What was the significance of the Brooks-Sumner affair in Congress?
a) It eased sectional tensions between northern and southern states temporarily
b) It was the first act of violence in the sectional crisis
c) The violence in Congress hinted at the violence to come (civil war)
d)

What was the significance of the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858?
a) Lincoln won the debates and was elected President in 1858
b) The debates made Lincoln a national figure and brought the moral issue of slavery into focus
c) The debates eased sectional tensions in the north
d)

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