<p> 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</p><p>2. Who were the forty-niners? What problems did they cause?</p><p>3. Why did the Wilmot Proviso outrage southerners so much?</p><p>4. What political conflicts did California’s application for statehood cause?</p><p>5. In 1850 was there a balance of power in the House of Representatives between Free States and Slave States?</p><p>6. What were the four terms of the compromise of 1850? Purpose?</p><p>7. What was the effect of the compromise on the nation?</p><p>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</p><p>9. What was the Northern response to the Fugitive Slave Law?</p><p>10. What was the effect of the Fugitive Slave Law on abolitionist?</p><p>11. What was Stowe trying to accomplish with her book Uncle Tom’s Cabin?What was the significance of the book?</p><p>12. Where the routes of the Underground Railroad leading?</p><p>13. Look on p. 314. Answer the questions. </p><p>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</p><p>16. In 1854 the Republican Party reformed. What were their main ideas?</p><p>17. To what were the know-nothings most opposed?</p><p>18. Summarize the differences of the major political parties in 1850 & 1860.</p><p>Section 4 19. People/ Terms a) Dredd Scott, Roger B. Taney, Abraham Lincoln, Freeport Doctrine, Harpers Ferry, Confederacy, Jefferson Davis</p><p>20. What was the ruling in the Dredd Scott case? What were the effects of the ruling?</p><p>21. List five characteristics of Lincoln.</p><p>22. What were the Lincoln Douglass debates and why were they important?</p><p>23. What effect did John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry have on the nation? Southern Response.</p><p>24. Who won the election of 1860? What allowed him to?</p><p>25. How did the South respond?</p><p>26. What was different about the Confederate Constitution?</p><p>27. Southern states met in Montgomery and formed the confederacy. What states were there? Who did they elect as president?</p><p>28. What happened at Ft. Sumter?</p><p>29. How did Lincoln respond? </p>