1) What does antebellum mean? 2) Economically, how were the North and the South different from one another? How did this contribute to “sectionalism”?
3) What were abolitionists?
4) Who was Frederick Douglass?
5) Who was Harriet Tubman and what was the Underground Railroad?
6) What was the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
7) What was Manifest Destiny?
8) How did Texas become a U. S. state in 1845?
9) What were the causes and consequences of the Mexican-American War (1846 – 48)?
10) What was the Compromise of 1850?
11) What was popular sovereignty?
12) What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
13) When and why was the Republican Party created?
14) What was Bleeding Kansas?
15) How did the Supreme Court rule in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)? How did Northerners feel about this? How did Southerners feel?
16) How did Abraham Lincoln become nationally known (in 1858)?
17) Explain John Brown’s raid in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia (1859). How did Northerners and Southerners view his actions?