Chapter 14 ID SIGS Wilmot Proviso Know Nothing Party Free Party Abraham Lincoln –Soil Compromise of 1850 Secession Trent Affair Popular sovereignty Writ of habeas corpus Fugitive Slave Law Morrill Tariff Affair Kansas Nebraska Act Homestead act Ostend Manifesto Chapter 14 Questions How could Northerners detest slavery and yet not embrace abolitionism? Contrast the goals and appeal of the Free-Soil movement with those of the abolitionist movement. List and explain the alternative suggestions for the problem of extending slavery to new territories acquired by the United States in the Mexican War. Why did they fail to provide an adequate solution? What "ambiguity" doomed popular sovereignty as a solution? The author suggests that the Compromise of 1850 "was really more like an armistice or a ceasefire." Explain How and why were the 1840s and 1850s a time of shifting political alignments in the United States? Account for the seeming dominance of the Democratic party during this era Why did Lincoln win the election of 1860? How did the South react? Why would the northern politician approve of Abraham Lincoln for president? Why would a Southern slaveholder oppose Lincoln as president?
Chapter 14 ID SIGS Wilmot Proviso Free –Soil Party Compromise of 1850 Popular sovereignty Fugitive Slave Law Kansas Nebraska Act Ostend Manifesto Know Nothing Party Abraham Lincoln Secession Trent Affair Writ of habeas corpus Morrill Tariff Affair Homestead act Chapter 14 Questions How could Northerners detest slavery and yet not embrace abolitionism? Contrast the goals and appeal of the Free-Soil movement with those of the abolitionist movement. List and explain the alternative suggestions for the problem of extending slavery to new territories acquired by the United States in the Mexican War. Why did they fail to provide an adequate solution? What "ambiguity" doomed popular sovereignty as a solution? The author suggests that the Compromise of 1850 "was really more like an armistice or a ceasefire." Explain How and why were the 1840s and 1850s a time of shifting political alignments in the United States? Account for the seeming dominance of the Democratic party during this era Why did Lincoln win the election of 1860? How did the South react? Why would the northern politician approve of Abraham Lincoln for president? Why would a Southern slaveholder oppose Lincoln as president?
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