Chapter 10 Question Sheet

Chapter 10 Question Sheet - The Union in Peril 1. People/ Terms a) Wilmot Proviso, Secession, Compromise of 1850, popular sovereignty, Stephen A. Douglas, Millard Fillmore

2. Who were the forty-niners? What problems did they cause?

3. Why did the Wilmot Proviso outrage southerners so much?

4. What political conflicts did California’s application for statehood cause?

5. In 1850 was there a balance of power in the House of Representatives between Free States and Slave States?

6. What were the four terms of the compromise of 1850? Purpose?

7. What was the effect of the compromise on the nation?

Section 2 8. People/ Terms a) Fugitive Slave Act, Personal Liberty Laws, Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, John Brown

9. What was the Northern response to the Fugitive Slave Law?

10. What was the effect of the Fugitive Slave Law on abolitionist?

11. What was Stowe trying to accomplish with her book Uncle Tom’s Cabin?What was the significance of the book?

12. Where the routes of the Underground Railroad leading?

13. Look on p. 314. Answer the questions.

14. Describe the Caning of Charlie Sumner. How was this a product of that era’s tensions? Sect. 3 15. People/ Terms a) Franklin Pierce, Nativism, Know- Nothing Party, Free- Soil Party, Republican Party, Horace Greely, John C. Freemont, James Buchanan

16. In 1854 the Republican Party reformed. What were their main ideas?

17. To what were the know-nothings most opposed?

18. Summarize the differences of the major political parties in 1850 & 1860.

Section 4 19. People/ Terms a) Dredd Scott, Roger B. Taney, Abraham Lincoln, Freeport Doctrine, Harpers Ferry, Confederacy, Jefferson Davis

20. What was the ruling in the Dredd Scott case? What were the effects of the ruling?

21. List five characteristics of Lincoln.

22. What were the Lincoln Douglass debates and why were they important?

23. What effect did John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry have on the nation? Southern Response.

24. Who won the election of 1860? What allowed him to?

25. How did the South respond?

26. What was different about the Confederate Constitution?

27. Southern states met in Montgomery and formed the confederacy. What states were there? Who did they elect as president?

28. What happened at Ft. Sumter?

29. How did Lincoln respond?