American
History, Chapter 10: The
Test Study Guide
Concepts to
Review:
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Similarities
North and South
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Differences
North and South (i.e. North more industrial; South more agricultural; etc.)
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Criticisms
of northerners towards southerners; southern criticisms of the North?
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George
Fitzhugh; Frederick Douglass; Frederick Douglass
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Why
was Uncle Tom’s Cabin significant?
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Great
Debate of 1850 – John C. Calhoun (south); Daniel Webster’s famous Seventh of
March Speech
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Compromise of 1850 – know the components,
what was the most offensive component to the North?
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What
were nativists opposed to? (review the
notes)
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Know
Nothing Party (originally American Party); naturalization
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What
issues did the Republicans grow upon in the 1850s?
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Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
(Stephen Douglass, IL) – know the components?
(also know: repealed the Missouri Compromise)
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Be
familiar with “Bleeding Kansas” – what events caused turmoil?
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Lecompton
Constitution
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Charles
Sumner’s Crime Against Kansas and
subsequent caning
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Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857); Roger Taney, Chief Justice - significance? what was the
decision?
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Know
the significance of the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 and
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Why
was John Brown significant?
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Election of 1860:
o
Know
the 4 candidates and their parties
o
Know
the platforms of the parties involved, with regards to slavery and the
impending crisis: Republicans, Southern Democrats, Northern Democrats,
Constitutional Union Party
o
Know
the results of the election (and why the lower South seceded)
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Secession Crisis:
o
KNOW:
Lower South states; Upper South states;
o
o
o
Jefferson
Davis (MS), President of the Confederacy