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Study Guide for Unit 4 - Sectionalism

Terms and People
Slaveocracy

Essential Questions
1. What social and economic impact did the invention of the cotton gin have on the
South and the North? (pages 202- 208)
North
South
Social

Nat Turner
Economic
2. a. Draw and describe the social class system in the South.(204-205)

Missouri Compromise

b. How did the class structure impact Southern attitudes about slavery?

2. Discuss both Frederick Douglasss background and the way he contributed to the
Abolitionist movement. (243 247)
a. Background:
Abolition
b. Contributions to Abolitionist movement:

Secede

3. Describe Jacksons attitude toward the Nullification Crisis and States Rights.
(225 226)
a. Nullification Crisis:

b. States Rights:
Sectionalism
4. Define popular sovereignty and explain how this led to conflict in Kansas. (284
288)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

5. Name and describe the 3 characteristics of the Compromise of 1850? (284 288)
a.
b.
c.

Fugitive Slave Act

6. Discuss two reactions to the Fugitive Slave Act, both the Underground Railroad
and the publishing on Uncle Toms Cabin. (288-291)
Underground Railroad
Uncle Toms Cabin
Describe what it is
John Browns Raid
Purpose
7. Why did a new political party, the Republican Party, develop in the mid-1800s?
(294 301)

The Confederacy

8. Describe the Dred Scott decision. (296-301

Why did Dred
Scott believe he
could sue his
owner?
What did the court
decide?

Election of 1860

How did this

decision affect the
relationship
between the North
and the South?
9. What did the election of Abraham Lincoln lead to? (302-307)