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Which of the following was NOT one of the major issues divided the Nation?
a) Cultural/Social and Economic Differences
b) Constitutional Differences
c) Differences in Language
d) Slavery

Which statement best describes the South's beliefs about slavery?
a) Slavery should not expand to any new Western territory
b) The Southern economy would be destroyed if slavery ended
c) Slavery was morally wrong and violated the principles of democracy
d) No new laws would need to be created if slavery could continue in the South

Which statement best describes the North's beliefs about slavery?
a) It was necessary to keep Northern textile mills running
b) The Northern economy would be destroyed if slavery ended
c) Slavery was morally wrong and violated the principles of democracy
d) Slavery would eventually die out so there was no need to make laws regarding slavery

Which statement best describes the North's beliefs about the power of government according to the Constitution?
a) The National Government is supreme over State governments
b) State governments should have more power than the National Government (States' Rights)
c) The National and State Governments should have equal power
d) The division of power should be revisited with a Constitutional amendment

Which statement best describes the South's beliefs about the power of government according to the Constitution?
a) The National Government is supreme over State governments
b) State governments should have more power than the National Government (States' Rights)
c) The National and State Governments should have equal power
d) Federalism appropriately divides power between State and National Governments

Which of the following is NOT a reason the South opposed tariffs?
a) it would increase the price of manufactured goods
b) it would decrease imports (goods from other countries)
c) it would protect farmers from foreign competition
d) England might stop buying American cotton

The South was primarily an ______ society in which people lived in small villages and on farms and plantations.
a) urban
b) rural / agricultural
c) suburban
d) industrial

A tariff is ___.
a) a Civil War Sheriff
b) a long battle or attack
c) a tax on imports (goods from other countries)
d) a short speech

The North favored tariffs because ___.
a) it would make goods more expensive to create
b) it would increase imports
c) it would protect factory owners and workers from foreign competition
d) it would add competition to the market

The South feared the North would take control of Congress and began proclaiming ____ as a way to protect their way of life.
a) states' rights
b) national supremacy
c) Southern secession
d) immunity

Struggles over the future of ________________ agitated the United States for decades and led the nation into the Civil War.
a) the transcontinental railroad
b) popular sovereignty
c) slavery’s expansion
d) women's suffrage

In both the North and the South, most people were _____.
a) farmers
b) self-employed
c) factory workers
d) unemployed

Which of the following did the North and South NOT have in common
a) beliefs on slavery in America
b) a culture of Protestant Christianity
c) political beliefs based on the Constitution
d) ideals of personal property

A culture of reform grew among the ______, fed by the Second Great Awakening, aspirations of social improvement, activist women, and charismatic reformers.
a) Northerners
b) White Southerners
c) African American Southerners
d) Native Americans

_____ argued that the Bible sanctioned slavery and that slaveholders acted as Christian protectors of enslaved people.
a) White Southerners
b) Northerners
c) African American Southerners
d) Native Americans

_____ saw themselves as a people held in bondage like the Israelites in the Bible and had faith, they would one day be delivered from slavery.
a) African American Southerners
b) Native Americans
c) Northerners
d) White Southerners

Which of the following statements is FALSE?
a) much of America's economy revolved around the institution of slavery
b) Plantation slavery was economically powerful in the South but did not develop as many towns, cities, + factories as the North
c) most people in the north and south were farmers
d) the majority of slave labor was used in the factories of the North

All were causes of the Civil War EXCEPT:
a) Desire for more land
b) Different attitudes about slavery
c) Conflicts about states’ rights
d) Cultural differences

In the 1850s the Democratic Party split over the issue of ___.
a) Expansion of slavery into the new Western Territories
b) Tariffs
c) Building factories in the South
d) Import of manufactured goods from Europe

The newly formed ________________ party in the late 1850s wanted to prevent slavery from expanding into the new Western Territories.
a) Republican
b) Southern Democratic
c) Northern Democratic
d) Whig

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