Unit 5, Lesson 3 Quiz

Why did the United States only admit new states in pairs after the admittance of Maine and Missouri in the 1820s?

• to maintain a balance of industrial and agricultural states

• to maintain a balance of slave and free states in Congress

• to ensure that new states had economic partners

• to protect the lands controlled by the Native Americans

Why did the election of Abraham Lincoln convince South Carolina to secede from the Union?

• Lincoln had threatened to send troops to occupy Charleston.

• Lincoln promised to increase taxes on cotton when he took office.

• South Carolinians were concerned Lincoln would push to outlaw slavery.

• South Carolinians believed Lincoln was a weak leader and would not accomplish any of his goals.

How did events such as the nullification controversy, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Dred Scott decision affect South Carolina and the nation?

• They prevented the expansion of slavery outside of southern states.

• They stopped the growth of the Abolitionist Movement in the North.

• They resulted in government placing strict regulations on the spread of slavery.

• They led to increased sectionalism as slavery became a dominant issue in the country.

Westward expansion led to growing sectionalism and controversy over the expansion of slavery to the territories. Which event was the first indicator of trouble between the North and South?

• The Dred Scott ruling was issued by the United States Supreme Court.

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act created a division between slave and free states.

• Aggressions in the Mexican American War started.

• Missouri applied for statehood as a slave state.

Why were slave-owning South Carolinians supportive of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Dred Scott decision?

• Both actions guaranteed that new states entering the union would allow slaves.

• Both actions endorsed the enforcement of stricter fugitive slave laws.

• Both actions supported the idea that nullification could be used to protect the rights of slave owners.

• Both actions allowed for the expansion of slavery into areas where it was previously prohibited.

Why were South Carolinians opposed to the passage of protective tariffs in the early 1800s?

• Tariffs hurt the South by raising the prices of manufactured goods.

• Tariffs prevented Southerners from exporting cotton.

• South Carolinians were opposed to all actions by President Andrew Jackson.

• South Carolinians felt the tariff would harm the growing textile industry.

What do the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, and the Articles of Secession all have in common?

• They all emphasize the supremacy of the national government.

• They were all written in the critical period just before the Civil War.

• They all complained about economic policies of the national government.

• They all promoted the theory of states' rights.

Why were many South Carolinians supportive of the Supreme Court's decision in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)?

• It made protective tariffs illegal.

• It gave states the right to secede from the Union.

• It protected the rights of slave owners.

• It declared Kansas and Nebraska to be slave states.

Why did John C. Calhoun promote the idea of nullification?

• to make it possible for southern states to stop protective tariff laws

• to allow military support for raids against the Native Americans

• to limit the power of the state governments

• to increase taxes on goods imported from Europe

Why did the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Dred Scott decision anger northerners?

• They both set limits on where slavery could exist in the United States.

• They both allowed slavery to expand north of the 36'30 line established in the Missouri Compromise.

• They both pushed any decisions about slavery into the people's hands, via popular sovereignty.

• They were both influenced by Roger Taney, who was very sympathetic to the southern cause.