The Americans
Chapter 10 Outline
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The Union in Peril

I.	The Divisive Politics of Slavery
a.	Differences Between North and South
i.	What were common features of the North?
ii.	What were common features of the South?
b.	Slavery in the Territories
i.	What was the Wilmot Proviso?
ii.	What was the reaction among the North and the South against the Proviso?
iii.	What was the controversy over the admission of Oregon to the Union?
c.	The Senate Debates
i.	What were some of the issues faced by Congress in 1849?
ii.	Who introduced the Compromise of 1850?
iii.	What was contained in the Compromise of 1850?
iv.	What were the roles of Stephen Douglas and Millard Fillmore in adopting 
the compromise?
II.	Protest, Resistance, and Violence
a.	Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad
i.	What were the terms of the Fugitive Slave Act?
ii.	How did the Northerners organize to fight the Fugitive Slave Act?
iii.	What role did Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad play in the 
Abolition movement?
iv.	What was the significance of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
b.	Tension in Kansas and Nebraska
i.	What was popular sovereignty?
ii.	Where in the U.S. did they have the choice of popular sovereignty?
iii.	What was contained in the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
iv.	What prompted the bloodshed of "Bleeding Kansas"?
v.	What were some of the events that took place at Lawrence and 
Pottawatomie Creek and the U.S. Senate?
III.	The Birth of the Republican Party
a.	New Political Parties Emerge
i.	What happened to the Whig party?
ii.	What was nativism?
iii.	What were the beliefs of the "Know-Nothing" Party?
b.	Antislavery Parties Form
i.	What were the purposes of the Liberty Party and Free-Soil Party?
ii.	Why did the Republican Party form?
iii.	Who was attracted to the original Republican Party?
iv.	Who won the election of 1856?
v.	What was the significance of the election of 1856?

IV.	Slavery and Secession
a.	Slavery Dominates Politics
i.	What was the background and ruling of the Dred Scott Decision?
ii.	What was the Lecompton Constitution?
b.	Lincoln-Douglas Debates
i.	What was the significance of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
ii.	What were some of the key positions of the debates?
iii.	What was the Freeport Doctrine?
c.	Passions Erupt
i.	What took place at Harper's Ferry?
ii.	What was the reaction to the execution of John Brown?
d.	Lincoln is Elected President
i.	Why was Lincoln chosen as the Republican candidate for president?
ii.	What was the outcome of the election of 1860?
e.	Southern Secession
i.	Why did Lincoln's secession spark Southern secession?
ii.	Why did the South feel the need to secede?
iii.	When and where was the Confederate States of America formed?
iv.	Who was the president of the CSA?