Ch 6 WS #1

American History

 

  1. How did the Mexican War cause the issue concerning slavery in the country to grow?

 

 

  1. What did the Wilmot Proviso call for? Did it pass or fail?

 

 

 

  1. What was popular sovereignty?

 

 

  1. What was the Free-Soil Party opposed to? Why did most members of this party feel this way?

 

 

  1. By the end of 1849, early 1850, what territory wanted to come into the union as a state? What kind of state did it want to be?

 

 

  1. What were 4 parts of the Compromise of 1850?

 

 

 

  1. What was the Fugitive Slave Act? What did it call on ordinary northern citizens to do?

 

 

  1. What did author Henry David Thoreau write that could have been applied to the Fugitive Slave Act?

 

 

  1. What was the Underground RR? Who was its most famous “conductor?”

 

 

  1. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin? What were reactions to it from the north and the south?

 

 

  1. Who was Stephen Douglas? Where did he want the Transcontinental RR to start?

 

 

 

  1. What did many Senators feel have to be done before Nebraska could be organized into a territory?

 

 

  1. What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act say about slavery in the new territories?

 

 

  1. Why did Kansas come to be known as “Bleeding Kansas?”

 

 

  1. Who was Charles Sumner? What happened to him?