Mr. Dorrough’s History Class

Chapter 21 Standards Guide

Terms
•    Tallmadge Amendment
•    gag rule
•    Henry Clay
•    Fugitive Slave Law
•    Uncle Tom’s Cabin
•    John Brown’s raid
•    Election of 1860

Essential Questions

1. What actions did the following individuals take to eliminate slavery:  John Quincy Adams, John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison, and Theodore Dwight Weld?
2. What was the Northwest Ordinance, and how did it influence the spread of slavery?
3. Why did the admission of Texas and California increase tensions over the slavery issue?
4. How did each of the following either raise or reduce tensions over the slavery issue:  the States’ Rights Doctrine, the Missouri Compromise, the Wilmot Proviso, the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Dred Scott decision, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
5. How did Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun disagree over the division of power between the states and the federal government?
6. Where did the idea of secession start, and why did it create a constitutional crisis?
7. To what extent did Abraham Lincoln live up to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence in his speeches and as president?
8. What were the key causes of the American Civil War?