Review Sheet
Chapters 16-19
Slavery and America at Mid-Century
The Test will be worth 107 points. There will be 73 multiple choice questions worth one point each,
9 identify questions worth two points each, and three essay questions worth 16 points total.
Identify:
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Frederick Douglass
Manifest Destiny
Popular Sovereignty
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Wilmot Proviso
Fugitive Slave Law
John Brown
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Multiple Choice:
Chapter 16 (19 questions)
Result of the Cotton Gin invention
Powers of the Southern planter aristocracy
Why plantation agriculture was wasteful
Weaknesses of the slave plantation system
Why European immigrants didn’t come to the South
Percentage of southern whites who owned slaves
What non-slaveholding whites were considered
Why many whites owned no slaves
Who was pro-Union in the South
Northern attitudes toward free blacks
Facts about free blacks in America
Where slaves were concentrated in the South
Characteristics of slavery in the mid-1800’s
Why slaves were denied an education
How slaves fought against the system of slavery
Why some blacks were sent back to Africa
Match abolitionists with their role in the movement
How proslavery whites defended the institution
Varying Viewpoints – how historians have studied and interpreted slavery
Chapter 17 (17 questions)
Why John Tyler was a member of the Whigs
How US responded to the Canadian insurrection
Description of US-British relations
How Maine border dispute was resolved
Chronology of Oregon/Texas/Maine/Ashburton treaty The Aroostook War
Arguments against annexing Texas
How Texas was added to the United States
What attracted American settlers to Oregon
What area was in dispute between US and Britain
Why Election of 1844 was notable
Who supported taking all of Oregon
Reasons British government compromised on Oregon Why northwesterners were upset about Oregon comp.
The “Spot Resolutions”, who made them and why
Legacies of the Mexican-American War
What was the largest single addition to American territory
Chapter 18 (19 questions)
Consequences of Mexican cession debate
The 1848 Free Soil Party platform
Results of gold discovery in California
Why the South worried about slavery’s future
Why Free Soilers condemned slavery
Accomplishments of Harriet Tubman
The Underground Railroad
Calhoun’s plan to protect the south and slavery
Daniel Webster’s Seventh of March speech
The Young Guard – goals, purpose
William Seward and “Higher Law”
Taylor’s death and impact on Compromise of 1850
Details of the Compromise of 1850
Personal Liberty Laws
Significance of the Election of 1852
William Walker and Filibusteros
Matthew Perry and the opening of Japan
The Ostend Manifesto and Cuba
How to keep the Pacific Coast territories from breaking away from US control
Review Sheet
Chapters 16-19
Slavery and America at Mid-Century
Chapter 19 (18 questions)
Hinton Rowan Helper and the Impending Crisis
Bleeding Kansas and who fought who
Impact of the Sack of Lawrence
The Lecompton Constitution
The Sumner-Brooks Affair
The Election of 1856, who ran, platforms
Nativism in the 1850’s
Significance of Election of 1856
Chronology of Chapter 18 events
The Panic of 1857 – effects on North & South
The political career of Abraham Lincoln
The Constitutional Union Party
Election of 1860 – candidates and slavery positions
Effect of Lincoln’s victory on South Carolina
Where Confederate government was organized
Why Buchanan declined to use force on South
Why secessionists supported leaving the Union (2 questions)
Essays:
1. Describe the military conduct of the Mexican War. Discuss strategy, U.S. goals, diplomacy, and
battles and campaigns. Examine the military effectiveness of US war efforts – who volunteered, and
was the US conduct of the war completely successful?
7 points
2. What were the three things decided in the Dred Scott Decision of 1857? Who wrote the majority
opinion, and what was the significance of this decision?
5 points
3. Discuss the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Who won in the short term? Who won in the long term? What
was the impact of the Freeport Doctrine on the 1860 election?
4 points