Reading Questions Chapter 18 Part 2
VISUALS
1 394 2 PHOTOS—395 PHOTO – 399 Painting
394 - What?
- Where?
- Purpose?
395
- Who?
-Escaped slaves went where? (end destination)
399
- Title?
-Why is the woman on the end of the horse looking backwards?
2 390 Opening Quote – Golden Box Quote 396 – Chart 397 –Painting 398 – Map 399
390
- Who?
- Subject?
- When?
GBQ396
- Who?
- About whom?
- Why is he upset?
CH 397
- Title? (know all details)
- How would the entry of California as a free state affect the “balance” in the
Senate?
398
- Who is the subject?
- Who are the three (3) Senatorial Giants?
399
- Title?
- Copy the very last sentence of Emerson’s quote?
3
400 Map
- Title?
- What are the five (5) most Northern –Slave states?
4
402 Map
-What does this map show ---proposed what?
-Which Central American Country is seen, at this time, as the best place for an
“Isthmian” Canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
5 405 Map—Political Cartoon 406—Map 407—Golden Box Quote 407
405
- Title?
- What two (2) cities are shown as the prospective end points of the 1st TCRR?
406
- Who?
- What act/bill was so controversial?
407 Map
- Title?
- What area is in purple?
- Is this area above or below the 36-30 line?
407 GBQ
- Who?
- What Bill?
- Worst because?
- Best because? (in quote)
6 COPY THE CHART ON 397
READING QUESTIONS—BEGIN ON P. 397 “Deadlock and Danger on Capitol Hill”
7 “Young Guard?”
- Do they support or oppose the Compromise of 1850?
- Explain “HIGHER LAW?”
- How does this idea affect President Zachary Taylor, himself a Southerner who owned
slaves?
BREAKING THE CONGRESSIONAL LOGJAM
8 How does Taylor help pass the Compromise of 1850, which he opposed?
9 Who becomes President?
- How long was the debate on the various parts of The Compromise of 1850?
- How many speeches does Henry Clay make in support of the Compromise?
- Who are the “Fire-Eaters?”
- What happens in Nashville, Tennessee in 1850?
BALANCING THE COMPROMISE SCALES
10 Who got the better deal in the Compromise of 1850?
-California becomes what?
-Utah and New Mexico would decide the Slavery issue how?
- What is stopped in D.C. ?
11 What was the most “alarming” out of all parts of the Compromise of 1850?
- The “Bloodhound Bill” is known as what act of Congress?
- Could slaves testify on their own behalf?
- Copy the quote from p. 400-1st paragraph-from the “Bostonian”
- What are “Personal Liberty Laws?”
12 “Beyond question”---What was an “appalling blunder by the South?”
“None did more to awaken in the North”---What?
13 According to the text, how does the North gain advantage over the South “with each passing
decade?” (7 ways)
14 How do the inflammatory events of the 1850s affect the North’s perspective towards the South?
DEFEAT AND DOOM FOR THE WHIGS***
15 Election of 1852—
- Democratic Candidate? Nickname?
- Whig Candidate?
-Who wins?
-Other Parties running candidates in 1852?
16 What specific issue splits and kills the Whig party forever?
17 The Whigs demise ended what kind of Political parties?
- The Whigs demise brought about what kind of political parties?
EXPANSIONIST STIRRINGS SOUTH OF THE BORDER
18 Why was Central America now suddenly so important?
19 Where was the 1st TCRR completed & when?
20 Clayton-Bulwer Treaty?
21 What did Southern Slavocrats covet?
22 Why is William Walker significant?
23 For what does Pierce offer Spain 100$ million?
24 What do two (2) private Southern Armies (filibusteros) do in 1850 & 51 (they fail)?
25 “Black Warrior,” gives Pierce, possibly, an excuse to do what?
26 “Ostend Manifesto?”******
THE ALLURE OF ASIA
27 Where does Commodore Matthew Perry go in 1854?
- What had Japan done for the last 200 years to keep foreign influences away?
- What is Perry’s purpose?
- Treaty of Kananagwa?
- What effect does the “Meiji Restoration” have on Japan’s Isolation and way of life?
PACIFIC RAILROAD PROMOTERS AND THE GADSDEN PURCHASE
28 How do people wanting to go to California and Oregon get there at this time…
- By Sea (2 routes)- Land?
- What are “Ships of the Desert?”
29 What was the only “real solution” to the “problem?” (of getting to the Pacific Coast)
30 The Favored Region who had the only TCRR built in its region would “reap rich rewards in
what three (3) ways?
31 Who, Secretary of War & Future President of the Confederate States of America, arranges the
“Gadsden Purchase” from Mexico?
32 Below which three (3) states does the Gadsden Purchase run?
33 Why would a SOUTHERN TCRR be easier to build? (2 reasons)
34 What territory doe the Northern RR boosters want to be “organized” to be able to compete for
the 1st TCRR?
****35 COPY THE QUESTION---ON THE TOP OF PAGE 406---LAST SENTENCE ABOVE—“douglas’s
Kansas-Nebraska Scheme?”
DOUGLAS’S KANSAS-NEBRASKA SCHEME*****
36 What is Douglas’s nickname?
37 What two (2) future states are proposed to be made out of Nebraska Territory?
- Do they both lie north of the 36-30 line?
- How would they (Ks & Nb) decide the slavery issue?
- How could they allow slavery if they are both above the 36-30 line?
- What “ancient law” would have to be repealed?
- How do Southerner’s respond to Douglas’s “bait” of Kansas becoming a new “Slave State?”
- How do “Free-Soil” Congressmen respond to Douglas’s “scheme?”
- Which Region’s Senators help pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854?
CONGRESS LEGISLATES A CIVIL WAR****
38 What Act was “one of the most momentous measures ever to pass Congress?”
39 What two (2) Compromises are “wrecked” by this act?
1240 Which Political Party—THE LAST NATIONAL PARTY—is SHATTERED—by this act?
41 What was “THE MOST DURABLE OFFSPRING” OF THIS ACT?
- It was a “mighty protest against” what?
- People from which four (4) Political Parties join?
1234- What does the Party elect in just two (2) years (1856)?
- What would not be allowed “South of the Mason-Dixon Line?”