US I
STUDY GUIDE: CHAPTER 10 (The Coming of the Civil War)
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1.
Why was the South dependent on slavery?
2.
Why did immigrants tend to settle in the North?
3.
Why was slavery at the forefront of political debate in the 1850s?
4.
What did the passage of the Tallmadge Amendment and the Wilmot Proviso in the House of
Representatives indicate to Southerners?
5.
What was the main argument of southerners in opposition to any federal restrictions on slavery in the territories?
6.
Why did California’s entry as a free state upset Southerners?
7.
Why was the Compromise of 1850 accepted when neither side was really happy with it?
8.
What was the controversial provision of the Compromise of 1850 that was intended as a concession to Southerners?
9.
In what ways did Northerners resist the Fugitive Slave Act?
10.
What effects did Uncle Tom’s Cabin have on the debate over slavery?
11.
What was Stephen Douglas’ motivation for organizing the Nebraska Territory?
12.
What resulted from the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
13.
What was the official position of the Republican Party toward slavery in the late 1850s?
14.
How did slavery result in the realignment of political parties?
15.
What was the basis of Dred Scott’s lawsuit?
16.
What was the ruling of the Supreme Court in Dred Scott v. Sanford?
17.
How did Stephen Douglas’ opposition to the Lecompton Constitution and his Freeport
Doctrine affect his political career?
18.
What were Southerners shocked about following John Brown’s trial?
19.
How did the South respond to Lincoln’s election in 1860?
20.
Why did Lincoln win?
21.
Why did the Southern states secede?
MATCHING
22.
popular sovereignty
23.
“Bleeding Kansas”
24.
secession
25.
Ableman v. Booth
26.
Wilmot Proviso
27.
Lecompton
28.
nativism
29.
Harpers Ferry
30.
Confederacy
31.
Pottawatomie Creek
32.
Fugitive Slave Act
33.
Free Soil Party
34.
Know-Nothings
35.
Horace Greeley
36.
Franklin Pierce
37.
38.
39.
40.
41.
John Breckinridge
Stephen Douglas
Roger Taney
John C. Frémont
Winfield Scott
42.
Millard Fillmore
43.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
44.
James Buchanan
45.
Harriet Tubman
46.
Preston Brooks
47.
John Bell
48.
Henry Clay
49.
Abraham Lincoln
50.
Jefferson Davis