Unit 4 Test Review

Match the vocabulary term to its definition.

• secede

• the right to vote

• reform

• to make changes to improve something

• abolitionist

• a person who wants to stop or abolish slavery

• suffrage

• to formally withdraw from

What word does this image represent?

• sectionalism

• prison reform

• eduation reform

• women's rights convention

Answer explanation

Cartoon of the 1860 U.S. presidential election showing three of the candidates showing loyalty to one's own region rather than a country as a whole.

What two regions of the country were sectionalized within the United States?

What does this quote mean?
"We hodl these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal."

• Men do not women to be equal

• Men and women should have equal rights

• Women should have more rights than men

• Women should be treated differently

True or False: Women reformers began calling for change prior to 1860, but any significant change did not take place until after 1860.

• True

• False

How did enslaved people resist slavery? Select the two correct answers.

• organized rebellions

• speaking in code language

• silent protests and hunger strikes

• written petitions to the government

• breaking tools and working slowly

What was the main purpose of the Missouri Compromise?

• to spread slavery into new territories

• to balance slave and free states

• to make all new states free

• to end slavery everywhere

What was one result of the Compromise of 1850?

• it spread slavery into western territories

• it ended slavery in all western territories

• it created the Underground Railroad

• it started the Civil War

Waht do the compromises over slavery show about state balance?

• They were temporary solutions

• They solved the problem completely

• Only one was a long-lasting solution

• None pleased both North and South

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act allow?

• Settlers to decide if territories were slave or free

• A ban on all western and slave expansion

• Statehood for Kansas and Nebraska without votes

• Immediate abolition of slavery in all territories