Chapter 18
“Renewing the Section Struggle, 1848-1854”
Study Guide 

·  Explain how the issue of slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico isrupted American politics from 1848 to 1850.

·  Point out the major terms of the Compromise of 1850 and indicate how this agreement attempted to deal with the issue of slavery.

·  Indicate how the Whig party disintegrated and disappeared because of its divisions over slavery.

·  Describe how the Pierce administration engaged in various prosouthern overseas and expansionist ventures.

·  Describe Douglas’s Kansas-Nebraska Act and explain why it stirred the sectional controversy to new heights. 

Identification:
fire-eaters
popular sovereignty
Mason-Dixon line
Underground Railroad
Fugitive Slave Law
Free Soil Party
Compromise of 1850
Whigs
Ostend Manifesto
Gadsden Purchase
Missouri Compromise

More Identification:  William Walker, Zachary Taylor, Harriet Tubman, Daniel Webster, William Seward, Franklin Pierce, Winfield Scott, Matthew Perry, Stephen A. Douglas