Ch 15 The Nation Breaking Apart
 On what subject did most Northern whites and Southern whites
agree?
 How did the outbreak of the War with Mexico revive disagreements
over slavery?
 How did the Supreme Court add to the tensions over slavery in the
1850s?
 Which is NOT true of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
 The belief that the people living in a region should decide key issues
is?
 Northerners were unhappy about the fate of which two people?
 Which is true about the Republican Party?
 Which of the following was favored by white Southerners but opposed
by Northerners?
 What event affected the outcome of the 1860 presidential election?

Why did the Southern states decide to secede after the election of
1860?
 Why did John Brown lead an attack on Harpers Ferry?
 Which of the following made white Southerners fear that the North
would abolish slavery?
 What drew Lincoln into the Republican Party?
 What caused the Kansas Territory to be called Bleeding Kansas?
 What effect did the Compromise of 1850 have on slavery?
 Which was NOT true of the North and South by the mid1850s?
 What impact did Uncle Tom’s Cabin have on the slavery controversy?
 How did the Supreme Court apply the Bill of Rights to the slavery
issue?
 Which is true of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
 How did Southern leaders justify secession?
** There are 5 questions from a chart; Topic—Cotton Exports as Portion of Total U.S.
Exports by Decade, 1811 to 1860.