Civil War Checkpoint

Question 1

Which term did Americans use in the 1840s to describe the idea that the U.S should possess the entire continent?

Accepted Answer

Manifest Destiny

Question 2

Tariffs caused the price of ____ to go up.

Accepted Answer

Foreign Goods

Question 3

During the 1840s, abolitionists opposed annexation of new western territory because they

Accepted Answer

Feared the addition of more slave states.

Question 4

Which group benefited most directly from the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)?

Accepted Answer

Slave Owners

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the territories in the West.

Question 6

Which region of the United States was mainly manafuctring at the beginning of the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

The North

Question 7

According to the Taney Supreme Court decision, slaves can never be what?

Accepted Answer

Citizens

Question 8

Which of the following means that a person places the interests of a small area over the interests of the entire country

Accepted Answer

Sectionalism

Question 9

What is the abolition movement?

Accepted Answer

An anti-slavery group that wants to abolish slavery entirely.

Question 10

Following the Missouri Compromise of 1820, every state north of 36* 30' had to be what kind of state?

Accepted Answer

Free

Question 11

What is the idea that settlers had the right to decide whether slavery would be legal in their territory called?

Accepted Answer

Popular Sovereignty

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