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CH 15
STUDY GUIDE
THE UNION BROKEN
PEOPLE, PLACES & EVENTS
1. Kansas: Lawrence, Lecompton and Pottawattomie
2. The American economy in the 1840s and 1850s
3. Southern opposition to northern economic development programs
4 The mid-century immigrants & why they came.
5. The decline in the birth rate & short-lived American Party
6. Southern concerns and complaints in the 1850s
7. The Gadsden Purchase
8. Stephen Douglas & territorial governments in the Louisiana Purchase
9. The Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
10. The Kansas-Nebraska Act bends the Missouri Compromise
11. The Kansas-Nebraska Act Consequences
12. The Republican Party & “Bleeding Sumner” and “Bleeding Kansas.”
13. The Republican Party as a coalition
14. The ideology of the Republican Party
15. The “Know-Nothing” or nativist movement (later the American Party)
16. The Know-Nothing Party & young, native-born workers
17. “Bleeding Sumner” & the U.S. Senate
18 American Party, Southern Democratic and Constitutional Union tickets
19. The consequences of the Dred Scott decision
21 The Lecompton Constitution
22. The Freeport Doctrine by Douglas slave codes
23. Uncle Tom’s Cabin as a moral condemnation of slavery
24. “Slave Power conspiracy” vesus “conspiracy by black Republicans”
25. The Southern economy in the later 1850s & the price of land and slaves jumped
26. John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry
27. The first shots of the Civil War
28. By 1860, the forces that divided North from South
29. Historical trends that caused the split between North and South
30. The order of southern state secession
COMPLETION
1. After 1840, the most important stimulus to economic growth came
from [
].
2. The flood of new immigrants from [
]
attracted nativist hostility not only because they were foreign but also because they were
Catholic.
3. Senator Stephen Douglas sponsored the [
], the
fateful piece of legislation that toppled the second party system and started the nation on its
road to civil war.
4. Known as the Know Nothings, the American Party stood for restrictions
on [
].
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5. Though it bore the same name, the new [
the 1850s had no direct connection with the old party of Jefferson.
] party in
6. Abraham Lincoln first won national prominence in a series of campaign confrontations
known as [
].
7. Political parties disintegrated in the 1850s; the last one to do so, in 1860, was
the [
].
8. The presidential election of 1860 was really two contests in one: Breckenridge versus Bell in
the South; Lincoln versus [
] in the North.
9. The struggle that led to southern secession and Civil War ultimately was about slavery
in [
].
10. The first shot of the Civil War was fired by South Carolinians on Union forces
at [
].
IDENTIFICATION
Students should be able to describe the following key terms, concepts, individuals, and places,
and explain their significance:
Terms and Concepts
popular sovereignty
Dred Scott decision
congressional slave code
Know Nothing party
Lecompton constitution
Constitutional Union party
Slave Power
Sack of Lawrence
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Secession
Freeport doctrine
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Sumner
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Panic of 1857
Confederate States of America
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Individuals and Places
John Brown
Abraham Lincoln
John C. Breckinridge
Roger B. Taney
Franklin Pierce
Preston S. Brooks
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harpers Ferry
Stephen A. Douglas
James Buchanan
John Bell
Fort Sumter
Charles Sumner
Jefferson Davis
John C. Frémont
John J. Crittenden
MAP IDENTIFICATIONS
Students have been given the following map exercise: On the map below, label or shade in the
following places. In a sentence, note their significance to the chapter.
1. South Carolina
2. states that seceded before Lincoln’s inauguration
3. states that seceded after the firing on Fort Sumter
4. slave states that did not secede
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