<p>Chapter 15 The Nation Breaking Apart, page 478 Name______Section One: Tensions Rise Between North and South</p><p>1. Who is the man in the picture on page 481? ALEXIS DE</p><p>TOCQUEVILLE What did the Ohio River separate? SLAVERY</p><p>STATE OF KENTUCKY AND FREE STATE OF OHIO Pg. 481</p><p>2. How did Southerners justify slavery? WHITE PEOPLE WERE SUPERIOR, SLAVE </p><p>OWNERS INTRODUCED SLAVES TO CHRISTIANITY, THEY WERE GOOD TO </p><p>THEIR SLAVES; FOOD , CLOTHING , SHELTER 482-483</p><p>3. Define the Wilmot Proviso. 1846 DAVID WILMOT </p><p>PROPOSAL TO OUTLAW SLAVERY IN ANY </p><p>TERRITORY OBTAINED AS A RESULT OF HE </p><p>MEXICAN WAR , PASSED THE HOUSE, FAILED </p><p>IN SENATE</p><p>4. What was the Free Soil Parties slogan? POLITICAL PARTY DEDICATED TO THE </p><p>STOPPING THE EXPANSION OF SLAVERY, “FREE SOIL, FREE SPEECH, FREE </p><p>LABOR FREE MEN. THEY PUSHED THE ISSUE TO THE FOREFRONT 1848 AND </p><p>1852 5. Which house of Congress were slavery proponents concerned with? SENATE (TWO PER </p><p>STATE ) THE HOUSE WAS ALWAYS DOMINATED BY THE NORTH</p><p>6. Compromise of 1850. See class notes. </p><p>1. CALIFORNIA ENTERS THE UNION AS A FREE STATE</p><p>2. ALL MEXICAN CESSION LAND WOULD USE POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY TO DECIDE </p><p>SLAVERY : POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY IS THE IDEA THAT THE PEOPLE </p><p>OF THE TERRITORY OR STATE WOULD VOTE FOR OR AGAINST HAVING </p><p>SLAVERY IN THEIR AREA. </p><p>3. SLAVE TRADE IN WASHINGTON D. C. WOULD BE OUTLAWED (SLAVERY IN D. C. </p><p>WOULD STILL EXIST </p><p>4. A MORE EFFECTIVE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT . THIS ACT ALLOWED </p><p>“FUGITIVES” (ESCAPED SLAVES) TO BE HELD WITHOUT A </p><p>WARRANT, NO JURY TRIAL, REQUIRED NORTHERNERS TO HELP </p><p>RECAPTURE RUNAWAY SLAVES AND PLACED PENALTIES ON </p><p>THOSE WHO DID NOT : FINES AND JAIL TIME ( THE FUGITIVE </p><p>SLAVE ACT WAS THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE OF THE </p><p>COMP OF 1850)</p><p>7. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin and when was it written? HARRIET BEECHER STOWE </p><p>(1852) 8. What did the book show? THE EVILS OF SLAVERY, </p><p>9. How many languages was Uncle Tom’s Cabin translated into? 485 20 LANGUAGES </p><p>10. </p><p>11. Define Kansas-Nebraska Act.486 LAW PROPOSE BY STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, 1854. </p><p>ORGANIZED KANSAS AND NEBRASKA INTO TERRITORIES . PEOPLE OF THESE </p><p>TERRITORIES WOULD USE POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY TO DECIDE SLAVERY. THIS</p><p>DESTROYED THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE OF 1820 . DOUGLAS WAS HOPING </p><p>FOR A NORTHERN TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD ROUTE. </p><p>12. Why did Kansas Bleed? Pg. 487 CLASHES BETWEEN PRO AND ANTI SLAVERY </p><p>SUPPORTERS </p><p>13. Why did Preston Brooks attack Senator Charles Sumner? SUMNER INSULTED A </p><p>RELATIVE OF BROOKS. BROOKS HIT SUMNER WITH A CAIN SEVERELY </p><p>INJURING SUMNER . NORTHERNERS WERE AGHAST, SOUTHERNERS CHEERED</p><p>14. What political party began as a result of the anti slavery movement? Page 487 THE </p><p>REPUBLICAN PARTY</p><p>Section Two : Slavery Dominates Politics page 491</p><p>15. Over what issue did the Whig party split up? Page 491-492 THE KANSAS – NEBRASKA </p><p>ACT</p><p>16. Define Republican Party. Pg. 492 A NEW POLITICAL PARTY (1854) THAT OPPOSED </p><p>SLAVERY AND DID NOT WHAT TO SEE SLAVERY EXPAND </p><p>17. Who did the Know – Nothing Party dislike? 493 IMMIGRANTS 18. Freemont was the looser but what did the election show the nation? 493 HE WON 11 STATES</p><p>IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, SHOWING REPUBLICANS WERE A MAJOR </p><p>FORCE AND THAT SLAVERY WAS DIVIDING THE UNION</p><p>19. Define Dred Scott v. Sandford page 493 DRED SCOTT A SLAVE SUED FOR HIS </p><p>FREEDOM IN THE SUPREME COURT AND LOST. CONGRESS SAID SLAVE WERE </p><p>NOT CITIZENS AND THEREFORE HAD NO RIGHTS. THE S.C. RULES THAT THE </p><p>MISSOURI COMPROMISE WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL . THE RULING REINFORCED </p><p>THE IDEA THAT SLAVES WERE PROPERTY. BECAUSE SLAVES WERE PROPERTY </p><p>CONGRESS HAD NO AUTHORITY TO RESTRICT AN OWNER FROM TAKING THEIR </p><p>PROPERTY ANYWHERE! THIS THRILLED PRO SLAVERY PEOPLE </p><p>20. Define Lincoln- Douglass debate 495 SERIES OF DEBATES BETWEEN STEPHEN A. </p><p>DOUGLAS AND ABE LINCOLN FOR THE 1858 SENATE SEAT OF ILLINOIS. </p><p>LINCOLN LOST BUT THE RACE MADE LINCOLN FAMOUS AND A LEADER OF </p><p>THE REPUBLICAN PARTY</p><p>21. According to Douglass could the people go against the Supreme Court? Page 496 YES </p><p>22. What did John Brown try to do? Pg. 497 IN 1859 HE TRIED TO LEAD A SLAVE REVOLT </p><p>AT HARPERS FERRY , VIRGINIA. ABOLITIONIST SAW HIM AS A HERO, </p><p>SOUTHERNERS WERE APPALLED </p><p>Section 3 : Lincoln’s Election and Southern Secession page 499 </p><p>23. Who is in the picture on page 499? MARY AND JAMES CHESNUT </p><p>24. What does she foresee? THE CIVIL WAR 25. What issue split the Democrats in the election of 1860?page 500 THE ISSUE OF SLAVERY</p><p>26. Define platform page 500 A STATEMENT OF BELIEFS OF A POLITICAL PARTY</p><p>27. What was Stephen A. Douglass’ platform? LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE THE ISSUE OF SLAVERY </p><p>:POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY </p><p>28. Why did white Southerners fear Lincoln? Page 501 THAT HE WAS GOING TO BAN SLAVERY, HE </p><p>THREATENED THEIR WAY OF LIFE </p><p>29. How did the Southerners justify seceding? USING THE IDEA OF STATES RIGHTS , THE STATES HAD </p><p>VOLUNTARILY JOINED THE UNION THEY COULD VOLUNTARILY LEAVE THE UNION </p><p>30. What state was the first state to LEAVE THE UNION? SOUTH CAROLINA </p><p>31. What was the name of the new country and who was their president? CONFEDERATE STATES OF </p><p>AMERICA, JEFFERSON DAVIS WAS THEIR PRESIDENT</p><p>32. What event caused the Southerners to leave the Union? LINCOLNS ELECTION </p>