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Page 278-9 Chapter 7 Section 4
The Extension of Slavery:
1. Why were northerners against adding Missouri to the nation as a slave state?
2. How did the proposal by Rep. Tallmadge threaten the economic well being of the South?
3. How did the Missouri Compromise keep a balanced Senate?
4. Who persuaded the Senate to adopt the Missouri Compromise?
5. Missouri Compromise gave to both sides:
Issue / North (free states) / South (slaves states)New state and two votes in senate
The issue of slavery: Spread of slavery and runaway slaves
Angry about:
6. Read the short quote by Jefferson. Why does he compare the Missouri Compromise to a “firebell”? A firebell was like a town fire alarm to call out volunteers to fight a fire. Why is he “filled with terror”?
Chapter 10 Section 1: Growing Tensions Over Slavery
Pages 356-359
Column I Column II
_____ 1. to withdraw
_____ 2. idea that people in a territoryor state vote directly on issues
_____ 3. runaway slave
_____ 4. person who proposed a
compromise in 1850 to dealwith the crisis over slavery
_____ 5. senator from the South whowas against compromise onslavery
_____ 6. Massachusetts senator whoargued for compromise inorder to preserve the Union
a. fugitive
b. Daniel Webster
c. David Wilmot
d. Henry Clay
e. secede
f. runner
g. territorism
h. popular sovereignty
i. John C. Calhoun
7. What were two events that fueled the debate over slavery between 1846 and 1850?
8. Why was the Wilmot Proviso viewed as an attack on slavery by the South?
9. Why did the addition of California cause such a debate when it entered the Union?
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Chapter 10 Section 2: Compromises Fail
Pages 362-367
1. What was included in the compromise to please the North?
2. What was included in the compromise to please the South?
3. Why were Northerners so upset about the Fugitive Slave Law?
4. What does the character of Uncle Tom do in the quoted selection of the book; Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
5. How did Uncle Tom’s Cabin change the opinions of many Northerners about slavery?
6. What is the difference from slavery being a political issue to becoming a “moral problem facing every American”?
7. Why did Stephen Douglas want to see Kansas and Nebraska developed into territories?
8. How did Douglas gain southern support for the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
9. Why did Missourians flood into Kansas in March of 1855? What was the result of their arrival?
10. What did John Brown do in retaliation for the attack on the town of Lawerence?
11. What happened to Charles Sumner of the floor of the Senate?