Unit 9 Sectionalism Quiz

Established judicial review, which gave Supreme Court power to declare laws unconstitutional

• Second Great Awakening

• Oregon Territory

• Marbury v. Madison

• Quakers

First anti-slavery group who lived in Pennsylvania

• Second Great Awakening

• Oregon Territory

• Marbury v. Madison

• Quakers

Acquired from Britain in a treaty; U.S. achieved goal of Manifest Destiny

• Second Great Awakening

• Oregon Territory

• Marbury v. Madison

• Quakers

Encouraged people to be more religious; caused social reform leading to Reform Era

• Second Great Awakening

• Oregon Territory

• Marbury v. Madison

• Quakers

After South Carolina seceded, Lincoln -

• sent soldiers to attack Southerners in Charleston

• delivered supplies to Union soldiers at Fort Sumter

• informed Jefferson Davis that war was going to be declared

• invaded the South to rescue the soldiers at Fort Sumter

Determine whether the ideas described below were beliefs held by Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis. Select the correct answer in each row.

• The Union matters more than disagreements between states

• Jefferson Davis

• Argued that no state could legally leave the Union

• Abraham Lincoln

• Federal attempts to outlaw slavery violated Southern states’ rights

• Jefferson Davis

• Argued that states had the right to abolish a government that no longer met its needs

• Abraham Lincoln

Which idea does President Lincoln express in this excerpt?

• The Union exists only through the consent of sovereign states.

• The Union requires a nationwide decision on slavery.

• The Union matters more than current disagreements between states.

• The Union will be preserved through military force if necessary.

How was the event depicted in this image significant to the Civil War?

• The Confederate defense of the besieged fort lengthened the war.

• The Union victory divided the Confederacy along the Mississippi River.

• The invasion of the Confederate capital resulted in the surrender of the Confederacy.

• The Confederate attack upon the Union fort initiated the war.

Which statement best explains the changes shown in this table?

• Slaves from the Upper South were moved to the Lower South to work on cotton plantations

• The Upper South experienced an agricultural labor shortage in the antebellum period.

• Slaves were transferred from the Lower South to the Upper South to work in newly built factories.

• The Lower South lost population as settlers migrated west to establish new plantations.

What did Henry Clay propose in the Compromise of 1850 to pacify both the North and South?

• California would be a slave state, but the next state to join the Union would be a free state.

• California would be a slave state, and Oregon would be a free state.

• California would be a free state, and Congress would pass the Fugitive Slave Act.

• California would be a free state, but slavery would be allowed in Kansas and Nebraska.