Donnelly
APUSH
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The Wilmot Proviso (Foner 507-508)
1. What was the Wilmot Proviso? What was it supposed to do?
2. Why did slaveholders claim that the Wilmot Proviso was unconstitutional?
3. What was the Free-Soil Party? Why was the formation of the Free-Soil Party
important to national politics?
4. Why were so many people pouring into California?
5. What made California’s admission as a state so controversial?
6. How was the issue over California resolved? How did this affect the balance of
power in the Senate?
The Compromise of 1850
1. What state trying to gain statehood caused the compromise to be written?
2. What were the two parts of the compromise proposed by Clay?
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To please the North:
o a)
o b)
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To please the South:
o a)
o b)
3. What roles did Clay, Douglas, and Webster play in the compromise?
4. What does the compromise say about slavery in parts of the Mexican Cession that
aren’t California
5. How does Texas fit into the compromise?
6. In the Compromise of 1850, what happened to Washington, D.C.?
7. What is the final and most controversial part of the compromise?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
1. What is “popular sovereignty” in terms of slavery?
2. What was “Bleeding Kansas” and what two events caused it?
3. What was the initial purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
4. What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do to the Missouri Compromise?
5. When Kansas joined the Union was it a slave or a free state?
Dred Scott v. Sandford
1. Who was Dred Scott and who was John Sanford?
2. Why did Dred Scott believe he could sue John Sanford?
3. What did Dred Scott sue Sandford for?
4. Did Dred Scott win his case?
5. What were the three main points of the court’s decision?
6. How did this case drive the North and South further apart?'3