Chapter 12 What were the quot;Free Soilquot; and Constitutional Protection positions on slavery? What was popular sovereignty?

Chapter 12

1. What were the "Free Soil" and Constitutional Protection positions on slavery?

1. What was popular sovereignty?

1. What four main issues did the United States face as a nation as Zachary Taylor took office as president?

1. What was the Compromise of 1850?

1. What was the Fugitive Slave Act?

1. What consequences arose from compromises on slavery?

1. What are personal liberty laws?

1. Why did the Second Party System within the United States disintegrate in the 1850s?

1. What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

1. What was the Gadsden Purchase?

1. What was the Ostend Manifesto?

1. What was Nativism?

1. What were the political beliefs of the Know-Nothing Party?

1. What four groups combined to form the Republican Party in the 1850s?

1. Why and how did the North and South compete for control of Kansas?

1. To what did the phrase "Bleeding Kansas" refer?

1. What economic, political, cultural, and ideological differences between the North and the South led to the Civil War?

1. What was the Dred Scott case and why was it significant?

1. How were the debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas in Illinois significant?

1. What was John Brown's Raid?

1. What prominent issues and concerns affected the election of 1860?

1. What were the prominent responses to Abraham Lincoln's victory in the presidential election of 1860?

1. What were the causes of the Civil War?

1. What was Lincoln's view of the conflict between the North and the South upon taking office as president?

1. What sequence of events began the Civil War?

1. How can United States Senate speeches serve as historical sources?