NAME: _____________________________________ DATE: ____________________ PERIOD: ________
Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle
Page 414:
1. What is a proviso? _________________________________________________________________________
2. What did the Wilmot Proviso declare?
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Page 416:
3. The debate over slavery in the Mexican Cession threatened to split national politics along what lines?
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The Popular Sovereignty Panacea: pages 416-417
4. What is panacea? __________________________________________________________________________
5. Who did the Democrats nominate to run for President and what was his view on slavery?
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6. According to the principle of popular sovereignty, the question of slavery in the territories would be
determined by ________________________________________.
7. Why did the public like the idea of popular sovereignty? Why did politicians like it?
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Political Triumphs for General Taylor: pages 417-418
8. Who did the Whigs nominate to run for President? ________________________________________
9. What was the reaction to the disliking of Cass and Taylor? _______________________________________
10. What four issues did the Free Soilers promote?
1. ______________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________
4. ______________________________________________________________________
O’Farrell
NAME: _____________________________________ DATE: ____________________ PERIOD: ________
“Californy Gold”: pages 418-419
11. Why did the proposed direct admission of California into the Union, without passing through territorial
status, be considered controversial?
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12. Why was an adequate state government especially necessary for California?
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Sectional Balance and the Underground Railroad: pages 420-422
13. __________Which of the following was not among the issues that concerned southerners in 1849-1850?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
The political balance in the Senate might tip against them.
The admission of California as a free state might set a precedent for UT and NM.
Northern abolitionists were agitating against slavery in Washington D.C.
The loss of runaway slaves through the Underground Railroad.
There was a growing chance that a constitutional amendment would abolish slavery.
14. By 1850, the South was losing perhaps ________________ runaways a year out of its total of 4 million?
15. Look at Map 18.2 on page 421. Study it and answer the following question: A large territory claimed by
Texas was taken from it in the Compromise of 1850, and parts of it were later incorporated into five other
states. Which were they?
1. _________________, _________________, _________________, _________________, ________________
Twilight of the Senatorial Giants: pages 422-423
16. Who were considered the “Senatorial Giants?”
1. ____________________________________________
2. ____________________________________________
3. ____________________________________________
17. Name four things John Calhoun’s plan to protect the South and slavery consisted of?
1. _______________________________________________________
2. _______________________________________________________
3. _______________________________________________________
4. _______________________________________________________
18. Why did Daniel Webster believe slavery would not exist in the western territories?
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O’Farrell
NAME: _____________________________________ DATE: ____________________ PERIOD: ________
19. In what ways did Webster anger the North in his Seventh of March speech?
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Deadlock and Danger on Capitol Hill: page 423
20. During the debate of 1850, ___________________________ argued that there was a higher law than the
Constitution that compelled him to demand the exclusion of slavery from the territories.
Breaking the Congressional Logjam: pages 423-424
21. What major event helped the Compromise of 1850 pass?
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22. How did the Compromise of 1850 effect New Mexico and Utah territories? Washington D.C.?
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Balancing the Compromise Scales: pages 425-427
23. Who is considered the greatest winner in the Compromise of 1850? ________________________________
24. What two rights were slaves denied according to the Fugitive Slave Law?
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25. In what was the Fugitive Slave Law enforced? ___________________________________________________
26. What was the North’s ultimate response to the Fugitive Slave Law? What did it do?
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Defeat and Doom for the Whigs: pages 427-428
27. The conflict over slavery following the election of 1852 led shortly to the death of which political party?
________________________
Pacific Railroad Promoters and the Gadsden Purchase: pages 431-432
28. What was the Gadsden Purchase ultimately designed to do?
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O’Farrell
NAME: _____________________________________ DATE: ____________________ PERIOD: ________
Douglas’s Kansas-Nebraska Scheme: pages 433-434
29. What did Stephen Douglas suggest be done with the Nebraska territory?
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30. What did his plan contradict? Why?
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Congress Legislates A Civil War: pages 434-435
31. What was the most “durable offspring” of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
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O’Farrell