APUSH Chapter 18 Terms and Questions

by Jamie Nack

Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle (one pagers are due Monday 12/19)

Key terms:

  • Popular sovereignty
  • Free Soil Party
  • California Gold Rush
  • Underground railroad
  • Seventh of March Speech
  • Compromise of 1850
  • Fugitive Slave Law
  • Ostend Manifesto
  • Treaty of Kanagawa
  • Gadsden Purchase
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act
 People to Know:

  • Lewis Cass
  • Zachary Taylor
  • Harriet Tubman
  • Milliard Fillmore
  • Franklin Pierce
  • Caleb Cushing
  • Matthew C. Perry

 

 

Questions:

  1. How did the Compromise of 1850 attempt to deal with the most difficult issues concerning slavery? Was the Compromise a success? By what standard?
  1. What were the causes and consequences of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

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