Lesson 9 (TCI) Flashcards
Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
C. an agreement to allow slavery in Oregon Territory
Read the statements that follow.
- A significant number of people moved from rural farms to urban cities.
- Its economy centered on producing manufactured goods.
These statements best describe which region of the United States in 1860?
the North
The Kansas-Nebraska Act gave the people of those territories the right to decide the slavery question by voting. This solution to the slavery debate was known as
popular sovereignty.
Which of these was one ruling of the Supreme Court in its <i>Dred Scott v. Sandford</i> decision?
D. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 is unconstitutional.
Which of these newspaper headlines best summarizes what happened at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861?
“Federal Fort Is Fired Upon, Sending Country into War”
A strong attachment to regional interests is called ____________.
sectionalism
Which of the following statements about the differences between life in the North and life in the South is FALSE?
The population of New Orleans in the South was far larger than the population of New York City in the North.
Why did Senator Henry Clay propose the Fugitive Slave Law in the Compromise of 1850?
to appease Southern enslavers when California entered the Union as a state without slavery
Which of the following BEST describes the way Harriet Beecher Stowe’s <i>Uncle Tom’s Cabin</i> was received by the public?
The book intensified Northerners’ hostility towards the practice of slavery in the Southern states.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act made it so that
Kansas and Nebraska entered the Union and were organized based on popular sovereignty.
Protestors from both the North and the South who settled in Kansas with the goal of influencing the vote on slavery were called
agitators
In 1854, the Republican Party was made up of
antislavery activists and colonists.
__________ prompted widespread fears of enslaved people rebelling in the South.
John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry
Which statement is true of President Lincoln?
He declared that secession was wrong and unconstitutional.
What was the event ultimately caused the South to secede from the Union?
Lincoln’s victory in the Election of 1860
