Chapter 17

Road to the Civil War

Section 1 Settling DifferencesRegions Grow Further ApartWhat were the sections of the U.S?What did the Missouri compromise of 1820 do?

Dispute over Slavery in the WestWilmot ProvisoWhat is sectionalism?Question of Slavery in the territoriesPopular Sovereignty- how did it work?

Lewis Cass

Election 1848Democrats-their choiceWhigs-their choiceFree Soil party new party, what did they stand for?Who did they pick?

Zachary Taylor

California QuestionGold Rush what was it?

Effect of itCalifornia slave or free

Threats to the UnionSouth Carolina secession?

John C. Calhoun

Compromise of 1850What is this compromise?What are the 5 proposals

What does Clay do? Who is Clay?

Opposition and SupportDaniel WebsterRole of Stephen DouglasCompromise passed

Daniel Webster Stephen Douglas

Section 2 Moving closer to Conflict

Growing Support for Abolition

Fugitive slave law explain new version

 

 

Abolitionists Protests

 

Underground Railroad what is it how does it work

 

Harriet Tubman

 

Frederick Douglas

 

Slave narratives

 

A new picture of Slavery

 

Harriet Beecher Stowe Story

 

Uncle Tom’s Cabin and its effect

 

 

Kansas and Nebraska Act

 

Why did Kansas and Nebraska need to be territories now?

 

Role of Stephen Douglas

 

Does this cancel the Missouri Compromise

Bleeding Kansas

 

Why do both sides flood Kansas with followers?

 

Lawrence Kansas

 

Border ruffians

 

Two legislatures for Kansas explain

 

Who was John Brown

Violence in the Senate

 

What happened to Charles Sumner?

 

Who did it?

 

Dred Scott decision

 

Who was Dred Scott?

 

What is the story?

 

Role of Roger Taney?

Section 3 A New Political Party

 

What groups form the Republicans?

 

 

The Election of 1856

 

Parties and candidates

 

Abraham Lincoln becomes a national Figure

 

Who was Lincoln and where was he from?

The Lincoln Douglas Campaign

 

 

 

The Great Debates

 

 

What was the Freeport Doctrine?