Sectional Crisis- Unit 9

Wilmot Proviso--A proposal to ban slavery in the land gained from Mexico. Who would have been OPPOSED to this?

• Northern politician

• Southern Plantation owner

• Northern Merchant

To please the people of this region, the Compromise of 1850 promised Congress would pass a law to help slaveowners recapture runaway slaves.

• North

• South

To please people of this region, the Compromise of 1850 brought California in as a free state.

• North

• South

To please people of this region, the slave trade was banned in Washington, DC as a part of the Compromise of 1850.

• North

• South

The belief that the people living in a specific state should vote on key issues is...

• Secession

• Popular Sovereignty

• Sectionalism

• Suffrage

Check all of the following that are true about the book Uncle Tom's Cabin

• It made the south mad about how they were portrayed in the book

• It educated many northerners about the horrors of slavery

• It was written by a former slave

• It was a national best seller and increased tension in the country

A plan proposed by Stephen A. Douglas to have citizens vote whether the states would be free or slave.

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Wilmot Proviso

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

Supreme Court decision which said that slaves were not U.S. citizens.

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Wilmot Proviso

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

If it were to pass, it would have outlawed slavery in any U.S. Territory that the U.S. might gain in the war with Mexico.

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Wilmot Proviso

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

Theory that said the states had the right to judge when the federal government had passed an unconstitutional law.

• Sectionalism

• States' Rights

• Federalism

• Nationalism