American Pageant Chapter 18 Part II
1. What was the most objectionable part of the Compromise of 1850 for Northerners?
2. According to Ralph Waldo Emerson, why did the Fugitive Slave Act compromise the North?
3. Explain how the law was “stacked against” the accused?
4. How were personal liberty laws in Massachusetts similar to the actions of South Carolina in 1832?
5. If disunion and war had come in 1850 instead of 1860, which region would have benefited?
Explain your answer.
6. In the Election of 1852, why did the southern Democrats accept Franklin Pierce?
7. What issue divided the Whigs?
8. What were the significant results of the Election of 1852 for political history?
9. Why was the US interested in Central America?
10. What did Columbia promise in 1848?
Clayton Bulwer Treaty
11. Why did the South hope to accomplish in Central America?
William Walker
12. What were the Southern interests in Cuba?
filibustering
Ostend Manifesto
13. What happened to Southern determination to expand slave territory in the 1840s?
14. Why was the US eager to obtain a treaty for trade in China?
Caleb Cushing
15. What did the Treaty of Wanghia give to the US?
16. What was the goal of the first Americans to flood China?
17. How had the Tokugawa Shogunate responded to the arrival of the first Europeans in the 17th c?
Commodore Matthew Perry
18. What did the Treaty of Kanagawa give US in 1854?
Meiji Restoration
Gadsden Purchase
19. What were the advantages of a southern route for the transcontinental railroad?
20. How did the North respond to the problem of organizing territory for a northern route?
Stephen A. Douglas
21. What were Douglas’s personal interests in the northern route?
22. How did Douglas propose that Kansas and Nebraska deal with the issue of slavery?
23. What previous agreement would this have repealed?
Kansas Nebraska Act
24. What was effect of the Kansas Nebraska Act on civil debate on Congress?
25. What did Douglas fail top appreciate about Northern opinion?
26. What was the positive effect noted by Sumner?
27. Did this attitude bode well for the Union?
28. What was the effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act on the Missouri Comp and the Comp of 1850?
29. What the effect of the act on the sections’ willingness to compromise at all?
30. What was the effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act on the Democratic Party?
“slavocracy”
31. What new political party originated in the Midwest?
32. Who joined this new party?
33. What were the sectional limits of the party?