Ch 15 Study Guide the Union Broken

Chapter 15: The Union Broken

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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 midcentury immigrants & why they came.

5. The decline in the birth rate & shortlived 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 KansasNebraska Act 1854

10. The KansasNebraska Act bends the Missouri Compromise

11. The KansasNebraska 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 “KnowNothing” or nativist movement (later the American Party)

16. The KnowNothing Party & young, nativeborn 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 & theprice 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 [ ].

1. The flood of new immigrants from [ ] attracted nativist hostility not only because they were foreign but also because they were Catholic.
2. 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.
3. Known as the Know Nothings, the American Party stood for restrictions on [ ].
4. Though it bore the same name, the new [ ] party in the 1850s had no direct connection with the old party of Jefferson.
5. Abraham Lincoln first won national prominence in a series of campaign confrontations known as [ ].
6. Political parties disintegrated in the 1850s; the last one to do so, in 1860, was the [ ].
7. The presidential election of 1860 was really two contests in one: Breckenridge versus Bell in the South; Lincoln versus [ ] in the North.
8. The struggle that led to southern secession and Civil War ultimately was about slavery in [ ].
9. 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 / Secession
Dred Scott decision / Freeport doctrine
congressional slave code / Kansas-Nebraska Act
Know Nothing party / Bleeding Kansas
Lecompton constitution / Bleeding Sumner
Constitutional Union party / Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Slave Power / Panic of 1857
Sack of Lawrence / Confederate States of America
Lincoln-Douglas debates

Individuals and Places

John Brown / Stephen A. Douglas
Abraham Lincoln / James Buchanan
John C. Breckinridge / John Bell
Roger B. Taney / Fort Sumter
Franklin Pierce / Charles Sumner
Preston S. Brooks / Jefferson Davis
Harriet Beecher Stowe / John C. Frémont
Harpers Ferry / 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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