Sectionalism

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The Missouri Compromise (1820), the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) were all efforts to

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settle disputes over the spread of slavery to western territories

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Which part of the Compromise of 1850 probably created the most controversy? Options: the admission of California as a free state, the organization of New Mexico and Utah as territories open to slavery, the ending of the slave trade in Washington, D.C., the passage of a strong fugitive slave law to return runaway slaves to their owners

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the passage of a strong fugitive slave law to return runaway slaves to their owners

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What was the purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

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to allow the citizens to decide if a state would be a free state or a slave state

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In the 1850s, the phrase "Bleeding Kansas" was used to describe clashes between

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pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas Territory

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Why did the federal government force Natives westward?

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Native lands could be used for economic gain.

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What does the term sectionalism mean?

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Loyalty to a particular region instead of the nation as a whole.

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What was the Southern point of view about the expansion of slavery?

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They feared that if slavery could not expand then eventually slavery would be outlawed.

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All of these attributes describe the South EXCEPT? Established manufacturing. Depended on slavery. Against Abolitionist. Tended to be Democratic-Republican.

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Established manufacturing.

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All of these attributes describe the North EXCEPT? Typically Federalists. Freed their slaves. Established trade and small farms. Established plantations.

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Established plantations.

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This law required that northern states forcibly returned escaped slaves to their owners.

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Fugitive Slave Law