American Nation
Chapter 16: Slavery Divides the Nation
STUDY GUIDE
Use this review sheet to help you prepare for the Ch 16 test. Study the following concepts, but also study all
notes, Ch 16 worksheets, quizzes and review the chapter. Be sure to review your VOCABULARY TERMS for
the chapter as well. Questions on the test will NOT be limited to items on this study guide.
** Review and Study the Vocabulary Terms for Chapter 16 **
Main Ideas from the Chapter for Review:
1.
Identify the causes, parts and results of the following:
o Missouri Compromise (1820)
o Compromise of 1850
o Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
2.
What was the goal of the Free Soil Party? When did it form?
3.
What was Henry Clay’s role in the compromises?
4.
What was Stephen Douglas’ role in the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
5.
How did Northerners and Southerners respond to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
6.
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin? What was the impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the tensions in the
country?
7.
What happened in Kansas after the Kansas-Nebraska Act? Why was it called “Bleeding Kansas”?
8.
What happened to Charles Sumner in the Senate after (and because of) the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
9.
What did John Brown do in Harpers Ferry? What did the North think of him, what did the South
think of him?
10.
Why did the Republican Party form? What was their goal for slavery?
11.
What was the Supreme Court ruling in the Dred Scott case? How did Northerners and Southerners
react to the ruling and how did increase tensions in the country?
12.
What was the significance of the Lincoln/Douglas Debates? (Who emerged as a leader?)
13.
Who won the Election of 1860? How did regional differences influence the election results? How
did the South react?
14.
What state seceded first? What is the Confederate States of America?
15.
Where and how did the Civil War begin? (Who fired first?)