Unit 5: Sectionalism and the Civil War

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This painting best illustrates which of the following concepts?
Manifest Destiny,
Popular Sovereignty,
Transcendentalism,
Abolitionism

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Manifest Destiny

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Which statement best defines the concept of Manifest Destiny? Options: The government of the United States should expand military control around the world. The government of the United States should move Native Americans to reservations. The people of the United States are entitled to expand across the continent. The people of the United States are filled with the creative energy of immigrants.

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The people of the United States are entitled to expand across the continent.

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_______________ Admitted Maine to the U.S. as a free state and Missouri as a slave state to keep the slave/free state balance in Congress

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Missouri Compromise of 1820

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_____ was a radical abolitionist who raided the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry hoping to provoke a slave rebellion

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John Brown

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___________________ ruled that slaves were property and all blacks, whether free or slave, were not citizens

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Dred Scott v. Sanford decision

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A _____________ was a person who supported the movement to ban slavery

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Abolitionist

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______ required that all escaped slaves be returned to their "owners"

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Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

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______ was an idea that power is vested in the people - people can decide whether or not slavery should be allowed without federal intervention

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Popular Sovereignty

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Who was the Republican candidate in 1860?

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Abraham Lincoln

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After seceding, the south called themselves...

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The Confederate States of America