7.1 Sectionalism

The Missouri Compromise, the compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were all efforts to

• end fighting between midwestern farmers and native American Indians

• encourage manufacturing in the west

• increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections

• settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories

This was a mini-Civil War fought in the Kansas territory between pro-slavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers 

• Missouri Compromise 
• Summer if 1856
• Bleeding Kansas
• Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas

This law (act) opened the Kansas and Nebraska territory to being possible slave states 

• Fugitive Slave Act 
• Bleeding Kansas
• Missouri Compromise 
• Kansas-Nebraska Act 

What is popular sovereignty?

• Where sovereignty is left to the government to decide

• Where sovereignty is left to the people to decide

Which of the following describes "Bleeding Kansas"?

• A violent slave uprising led by Joseph Cinque

• Violence in Kansas between proslavery and antislavery settlers prior to the Civil War

• The turning point of the Civil War, in which Robert E. Lee's army was routed from Kansas

• The devastation caused by a tornado in Kansas in 1854, which killed 55 people

The WHAT was part of the Compromise of 1850 and made it a crime to help runaway slaves?

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Fugitive Criminal Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• California-Maine Act

What year was the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed?

• 1851

• 1853

• 1854

• 1856

What year was the Missouri Compromise?

• 1820

• 1825

• 1850

• 1860

When did California join as a free state?

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise 1820

• Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854

• Election of 1860

The Missouri Compromise created what line of latitude that stated slavery would be permitted below the line, but not above it?

• 54'40

• 36'30

• 12'76

• 18'50