AP US History
Chapter 14 – From Compromise to Secession, 1850-1861
Identifications: After reading Chapter 14, you should be able to identify and explain the
historical significance of each of the following:
Wilmot Proviso
popular sovereignty
omnibus bill
Compromise of 1850
Zachary Taylor
Nashville Convention, 1850
“Seventh of March” speech
William Seward
Jefferson Davis
fire-eaters
Millard Fillmore
Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
“personal liberty laws”
Anthony Burns
Harriet Beecher Stowe/Uncle Tom’s
Cabin
Election of 1852
Winfield Scott
Franklin Pierce
Stephen Douglas
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Gadsden Purchase (1853)
John Quitman/filibuster
Ostend Manifesto (1854)
Know-Nothing Party (American Party)
Republican Party
Bleeding Kansas
Lecompton vs. Topeka
“Sack of Lawrence”
Pottawatomie massacre
Charles Sumner/Preston Brooks
“slaveocracy”
Election of 1856
John C. Fremont
James Buchanan
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dred Scott Decision
Roger B. Taney
Hinton Helper
Panic of 1857
Lecompton Constitution (1857)
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
Freeport Doctrine
John Brown’s Raid – Harpers Ferry
(1859)
Robert E. Lee
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln
Constitutional Union Party/John Bell
John C. Breckenridge
Secession Crisis
Confederate States of America
Crittenden Compromise
Fort Sumter, SC
Lincoln’s call for troops
Thought Questions:
1. Repeated sectional compromises in 1820, 1833, and 1850 held the union together and
averted civil war. Why did compromise fail in 1860-61?
2. Although the compromise of 1850 postponed secession and civil war for a decade, it
also contributed to embittered feelings in each section toward the other. Discuss and
illustrate this statement.
3. Discuss the birth and growth of the Republican Party from 1854-1860.