Exam 14: From Compromise to Secession

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Lecompton and Topeka governments

Which of the following is not true about the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. John Brown and Harpers Ferry

What did anti-slavery northerners come to fear about expansionist southerners?

What were the major issues discussed in the Lincoln-Douglas debates? On what issues did the two candidates agree, and on what issues did they disagree? In what sense did the debates summarize the controversy to date, and in what sense did they point to the future of the controversy?

How did this shift affect defenders and opponents of slavery in the United States?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks

South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. "Higher law"

What was the final blow to the Whig party?

The Lecompton Constitution

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Conscience Whigs

MAP QUESTIONS Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the United States in 1860 that correctly identifies each of the following: California

MAP QUESTIONS Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the United States in 1860 that correctly identifies each of the following: Kansas Territory

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. John J. Crittenden

Lincoln's mainly Republican audience included some prominent Democrats. What image of the Republican party was he trying to counter?

What were the issues behind the Kansas-Nebraska Act? How did political pressures shape the bill? Why did a seemingly uncontroversial issue-the advance of midwestern settlement-become such a heated sectional issue?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Bleeding Kansas

How did the Fugitive Slave Act lead to the undoing of the Compromise of 1850?