APUSH – Grisanzio
Chapter 14 – The Sectional Crisis
(Americans – Ch 10)_
1. How does the story in the intro set the stage for the chapter?
2. How did the Mexican Cession present a problem for Congress concerning slavery? (283)
3. What role did David Wilmot have in launching the free-soil movement? (283-4)
4. How does popular sovereignty play into the issue of slavery? (285)
5. How does President Taylor make the issue worse concerning slavery in the Mexican Cession? (284-6)
6. Discuss the Compromise of 1850. (285)
7. Discuss the Kansas – Nebraska Act of 1854. (291)
8. What effect did Douglass and his popular sovereignty have on the unity of the political parties? (291-2)
9. Discuss the Ostend Manifesto.
10. Discuss the Know-Nothings and nativism. (296)
11. How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act give birth to the Republican Party? (295-7)
12. Discuss Bleeding Kansas. (293)
13. What role did John Brown play in Kansas? (293)
14. What effect did sectionalism play in the election of 1856? (298)
15. Discuss Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin. (290)
16. Discuss the Dred Scott case. (299)
17. Discuss the Lecompton constitution. (300)
18. How did slavery become an issue in the Illinois 1858 Senate campaign? (300)
19. What role did John Brown and Harpers Ferry play in the impending crisis? (302)
20. What role did the Election of 1860 have on the coming of the Civil War? (303-4)