Chapters 15 Review
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Study Item/Question
476
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
476
What was popular sovereignty and how did it apply to states and the
slavery issue?
477
What was the Free-Soil Party and what did it support?
477
Why did members of the Free-Soil Party support the abolition movement?
478
What did Senator Henry Clay propose about California’s status in the
Compromise of 1850?
478
What is secession?
479
What were the consequences of the Compromise of 1850?
479
What was the Fugitive Slave Act and what restrictions did it put on slavery?
481
Why did most Northerners oppose the Fugitive Slave Act?
481
What was Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
484
Why did Southern Democrats trust Franklin Pierce in the Election of 1852?
484
Why didn’t the Whig Party choose Millard Fillmore as their candidate in the
Election of 1852?
485
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do?
487
What was the Pottawatomie Massacre?
487
What was a result of the Pottawatomie Massacre?
488
How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act impact political parties?
488-489
Why did the Democratic Party nominated James Buchanan for president in
the Election of 1856?
490
What was decided in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?
492
What was one the major parts of the Freeport Doctrine?
493-494
Why did John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry fail?
494
How did John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry affect life in the United States?
495
What was the significance of the Election of 1860?
497
What principle did newly elected president Lincoln confirm?