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APUS: Chapter 18

1) Explain the doctrine of “popular sovereignty” and why it caused political trouble for both sides of the slavery issue.

2) What were the specific beliefs of the Free Soil party during the 1848 election?

3) Under what conditions did California seek admission to the United States?

4) What was President Taylor’s role in the application of California to the US? Does this strike you as somewhat strange - why?

5) Who was Harriet Tubman? Why was she considered “amazing?”

6) What were Daniel Webster’s major reasons for supporting Clay’s compromises?

7) Why was he vilified for these views, in spite of the fact that they enjoyed widespread support in the North?

8) What was President Taylor’s solution to the debate over slavery?

9) What saved the country from Civil War in 1850?

10) Explain why the Whigs, in spite of having won support for the Compromise of 1850, lost the election of 1852.

11) Explain how the demise of the Whig party helped further the split of the Union and speeded progress toward the Civil War.

12) Where were expansionist Southerners looking to continue to gain territory? Why?

13) Why was Cuba so popular?

14) Explain how the division over slavery prevented the US from gaining new territories in either Canada or Cuba.

15) Explain the rationale for the Gadsden Purchase.