US History 1 Honors
Chapter 14 Slavery and
Identification and Significance
DIRECTIONS: AFTER
reading the appropriate sections in the textbook, you should be able to
identify fully and explain the historical significance of each item listed
below.
1. Identify
each item below and give an explanation or description of the tiem. Answer the
questions who, what, where, and when.
2. Explain the
historical significance of each item in the space provided. Establish the historical context in which the
item exists. Establish the item as the
result of or as the cause of
other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the
political, social economic, and or cultural consequences of this item?
**Note on CHEATING COMPARED TO WORKING TOGETHER: It is acceptable practice to discuss,
email, text each other while working on these items for homework, however YOUR final
answer, must be in your own words. IF
ANY ITEM IS COPIED OR LOOKS LIKE IT WAS COPIED AND CHANGED (as in just changing
a couple of words), ALL PARTIES WILL RECEIVE A ZERO FOR THE ASSIGNMENT.
Unannounced quizzes from homework will also be used to
measure student learning.
Chapter 14
1.
James K. Polk
2.
the
3.
the Mexican War
4.
the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo
5.
the Slave Power
6.
the Wilmot
Proviso
7.
John C. Calhoun’s
territoroial theories
8.
the presidential
election of 1848
9.
popular
sovereignty
10.
the Free Soil
Party
11.
the Compromise of
1850
12.
the Fugitive
Slave Act
13.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
14.
proslavery
theories
15.
George Fitzhugh
16.
the presidential
election of 1852
17.
Franklin Pierce
18.
Anthony Burns
19.
the
20.
Stephen A.
Douglas
21.
the
Kansas-Nebraska Bill
22.
personal liberty
laws
23.
“Appeal of the
Independent Democrats”
24.
the Republican
party
25.
the American (Know
Nothing) Party
26.
“Free Soil, Free
Labor, Free Men”
27.
the southern
version of republicanism
28.
Bleeding
29.
John Brown
30.
the Sumner-Brooks
affair
31.
James Buchanan
32.
the Presidential
election of 1856
33.
the Dred Scott case
34.
35.
the Lecompton
constitution
36.
the
37.
John Brown’s raid
on Harper’s Ferry
38.
the 1860
Democratic convention
39.
the presidential
election of 1860
40.
the Crittenden
Compromise
41.
separate-state
secession strategy
42.
the Confederate
States of
43.
the attack on