Chapter 18

1) What did national parties often do to maintain national unity in regards to the slavery issue?
2) What was the impact of the Mexican War on the slavery issue?
3) What were the beliefs of the Free Soil Party?
4) What does the term "popular sovereignty" mean?
5) What was the key issue in the election of 1848?
6) What event brought turmoil to the presidency of Zachary Taylor?
7) What type of people went to California?
8) Why did the Free Soilers condemn slavery?
9) Who was Harriet Tubman?  What did she do?
10) What was Calhoun's plan to protect the South?
11) What were the terms of the Compromise of 1850?  Reaction from North and South?
12) How was slavery impacted by the push for a transcontinental railroad?
13) How did Douglas propose to address slavery in Kansas and Nebraska?

Chapter 16 Study Questions

1) What happened to slavery as a result of the cotton gin?
2) What were the characteristics of the southern aristocracy?
3) What was the impact of plantation agriculture on the land?
4) What were the weaknesses of the slave plantation system?
5) Why did the slave-less whites support the slave system?
6) What was typical northern attitudes towards free blacks?
7) What happened to the South's economy based on the slavery system?
8) Where were the most slaves concentrated in the South?
9) How did slaves fight the slavery system?
10) What are some examples of slave uprisings in the South?
11) Who were the following people: William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglas?
12) What was the 1st political party who focused on the issue of abolition?

Monday 1/14/2013

Today - we will look at Nick and Trevor's Mexican-American War project.  Discuss why the Mexican-American War was fought.  We will also go over Study Questions on Chapter 13, and AL will present what she read and learned in Howard Zinn's A People's History.  We will then begin to discuss the roots of the Civil War.