Homework 15 - Chapter 10: The Union In Peril
Read pg. 302 - 334 chapter. Answer the questions.
Section 1: The Divisive Politics of Slavery
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What did John C. Calhoun threaten in his March 1850 speech?
Why does he look so grumpy in his picture on page 304?
What changes had shaped the northern states since the days of the signing of the Constitution?
Why did slavery and agriculture help southern states remain the same and unchanged?
Why were the north and south destined to wage war over the future of America?
Look at the picture of the house on page 305. Why did Greek Revival architecture remain so popular in the US?
What did controversial idea did David Wilmot propose in 1846?
Why did the south fear the Wilmot Proviso?
What helped California gain admission as a new state so rapidly?
Why did California ignite the slave debate between the north and south in Congress?
What did Henry Clay propose to avoid secession and war?
What did the North get from Clay’s deal?
What did the South get from Clay’s deal?
What does the term popular sovereignty mean?
In a speech, how did Clay defend his ideas?
How did John C. Calhoun respond to Clay?
What did Daniel Webster say to both Calhoun and Clay?
Why is the 7th of March speech one of the greatest public speeches in US History?
How did Stephen Douglas ensure that Clay’s Compromise would pass the Senate vote?
What happened to President Taylor?
Who replaced him?
Why did the new President support the compromise?
Did the Compromise of 1850 provide a long term answer to the question of slavery? Why/why not?
Section 2: Protest, Resistance, and Violence
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What did Charlotte Forten write about on June 2nd 1854?
What was the purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act?
How did some northern states such as Pennsylvania try and resist the Fugitive Slave Act?
Who was Harriet Tubman?
How did the Underground Railroad operate?
What was the name of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book?
What was the book about and why did it convince many to oppose slavery?
What was one major weakness in the book?
What new idea did Stephen Douglas have to try and settle slave questions in new territories?
How did Popular Sovereignty threaten the Compromise of 1820?
What did the law Kansas Nebraska Act attempt to do?
When the territory of Kansas had a vote to determine the status of slavery what happened?
What happened to the town of Lawrence, Kansas?
Why did Kansas end of with 2 state governments?
Where were they located?
Who was John Brown and what did he do at Potowatomie?
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What nickname did Kansas earn during this violent period?
What did Senator Charles Sumner say about South Carolina and slavery in a speech to Congress?
How did Congressman Preston Brooks respond to Sumner’s speech?
Why was Brooks called a hero?
What happened to Senator Sumner?
Section 3: The Birth of the Republican Party
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Why did Horace Greeley abandon the Whig Party?
What made the new Republican Party so attractive to voters in the 1850s?
Why did the Whig Party fall out of favor and die out?
What is nativism?
What did the Know Nothing Party believe in?
Why did they do so well in the election of 1854?
How did they get the crazy name “Know Nothing”?
Many northerners were Free Soilers. What does that mean?
Why did northern free soilers feel threatened by slavery?
What was founded on July 6, 1854?
What did this new political party believe in?
Why did they pick John C. Fremont as it’s presidential candidate in 1856?
Why did Fremont lose to Democrat James Buchannan?
Section 4: Slavery and Secession
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What was the most important idea in Lincoln’s address to the Republican Convention of 1858?
Who was he running against for the Illinois Senate seat?
Who was Dred Scott?
What decision did the Supreme Court make in regards to Scott’s status as a slave?
Why is the Dred Scott decision a blow to the abolitionists?
What is the Lecompton Constitution?
Why did President Buchannan support the proslavery Lecompton Constitution when it was clear that most
people in Kanasas opposed slavery?
What impact did the events in Kansas have on the Democratic Party?
Why was Lincoln such a long shot to beat Senator Stephen Douglas?
Why was Lincoln’s challenge to debate Douglas a brilliant move?
What was Stephen Douglas’s position on slavery during the debates?
What was Lincoln’s position on slavery during the debates?
Why did Lincoln oppose the equality of whites and blacks at this time in 1858?
What crucial question did Lincoln ask Douglas in Freeport, Illinois?
What did Douglas say as an answer?
What did Douglas’s answer prove about the idea of popular sovereignty?
Why?
Who won the election for the Illinois Senate seat in 1858?
How did defeat help Lincoln?
What happened on October 16, 1859?
Who put down the attempted slave revolt?
How did Brown’s conviction and hanging make him a martyr?
Why did the Republicans decide to go with Abe Lincoln as a candidate in the election of 1860?
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Why did Senator William Seward fail to win the Republican Nomination?
Why did the Democrats have 4 candidates for President?
How did this help Lincoln win the Election of 1860?
Upon the Election of Abe Lincoln what did South Carolina decide to do?
How many other southern states joined South Carolina?
What did they form on February 4, 1860?
Who was elected President in Montgomery, Alabama?
Why is James Buchannan the worst President ever in US History?