2024 Final Exam: Road to Civil War

What is the term for disagreements between different regions of a nation?

• sectionalism

• federalism

• nationalism

• suffrage

Which politician from Kentucky helped create the compromise allowing Missouri to become a state?

• Henry Clay of Kentucky

• John C. Calhoune of South Carolina

• John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts

• Abraham Lincoln of Illinois

Which state was added as a free state to balance out Missouri joining the Union as a slave state?

• Maine

• Illinois

• Indiana

• Vermont

Before Missouri applied for statehood there was a balance in the number of slave states and free states. How many of each type of state were there?

• 13

• 11

• 15

• 24

Which line of latitude would become the northern limit for the expansion of slavery into new territories after the Missouri Compromise was ratified?

• 45 degrees North latitude

• 36 degrees, 30 minutes North latitude

• The Equator, 0 degrees latitude

• 45 degrees South latitude

What practice was banned in new territories above the 36 degree, 30 minute North line of latitude after the Missouri Compromise was passed?

• slavery

• religious freedom

• funding public education

• sectionalism

How did the Missouri Compromise increase sectional tensions between the Northern free states and the Southern slave states?

• The Missouri Compromise limited religious freedom.

• The Missouri Compromise limited the expansion of slavery into new Western territories.

• The Missouri Compromise limited the expansion of new road and canal building projects.

• The Missouri Compromise limited trade in new Western territories

Label the following sections of the map:

a

b

c

West

North

South

Sort the following characteristics of the North, South, and West that led to increased Sectionalism:

Groups:

(a) North

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(b) South

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The ​ (a)   maintained the balance of power between free and slave states by adding ​Maine as a ​ (b)   and Missouri as a ​ (c)   .

• Missouri Compromise of 1820
• free state
• slave state
• 3/5ths Compromsie
• Southern State
• Northern State