Chapter 16
Slavery Divides the Nation (pg 458-483)
I. Slavery in the Territories (460-462)
ALT (pg 462 #1-5)
1. Why was there a debate over Missouri’s statehood?
2. List the three parts of the Missouri Compromise.
3. What was the Wilmot Proviso? Why did it pass in the House and fail in the Senate?
4. What is Sectionalism? (use glossary)
5. What is Popular Sovereignty?
6. What were the goals of the Free Soil Party?
II. The Compromise of 1850 (463-467)
ALT (pg 466 #1-5)
1. Define “secede”
2. List the five parts of the Compromise of 1850.
3. What was the Fugitive Slave Law?
4. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin? What was its impact?
III. The Crisis Deepens (468-472) ALT (pg 472 #1-5)
1. What were the parts of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
2. Why did many Abolitionists object to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
3. Who were the “Border Ruffians”?
4. How did Kansas end up with two governments?
5. Who was John Brown?
6. What happened between Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks?
7. Who was Dred Scott?
8. What was the basis for Dred Scott’s lawsuit?
9. What was the Supreme Court’s decision?
IV. The Republican Party Emerges (473-477)
ALT (pg 476 #1-5)
1. Who made up the Republican Party?
2. What were the goals of the Republican Party?
3. What were Lincoln and Douglas’ views of slavery?
4. What was the key idea of Lincoln’s “house divided speech”?
5. Why did John Brown raid Harpers Ferry?
6. What is a martyr?
V. A Nation Divides (478-481)
ALT (pg 481 #1-4)
1. Why did the Democratic Party split?
2. Why did the South feel it had to secede?
3. Why did Lincoln face a difficult decision when the Confederacy seized federal
property?
4. Why did the Confederates attack Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861?