US History 1 Honors                                                                                         

Chapter 14 Slavery and America’s Future: The Road to War, 1845-1861

 

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 Oregon Treaty

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 Ostend Manifesto

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 Kansas

29.     John Brown

30.     the Sumner-Brooks affair

31.     James Buchanan

32.     the Presidential election of 1856

33.     the Dred Scott case

34.     Lincoln’s “House Divided” Speech

35.     the Lecompton constitution

36.     the Freeport Doctrine

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 America

43.     the attack on Fort Sumter