Chapter 14 Section 1 - Sheet1

Question 1

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 1

principle that asserts that people are the primary source of the government’s authority; right of people to vote directly on issues

Question 2

Secede

Answer 2

to withdraw from membership in a group

Question 3

Fugitive

Answer 3

a runaway

Question 4

Henry Clay

Answer 4

“The Great Compromiser.” Senator of KY with a plan for the Missouri Compromise, and other proposals to resolve northern & southern differences.

Question 5

John C. Calhoun

Answer 5

SC Senator against north & south compromise.

Question 6

Daniel Webster

Answer 6

MA Senator supported Clay’s compromise to preserve the Union.

Question 7

controversy

Answer 7

argument or dispute

Question 8

crisis

Answer 8

turning point or deciding event in history

Question 9

What is the focus question in Section 1 Growing Tensions Over Slavery?

Answer 9

How did the question of admission of new states to the Union fuel the debate over slavery and states’ rights?

Question 10

Why was Calhoun opposed to California’s admission to the Union?

Answer 10

It would tip the balance in the Senate against slave states.

Question 11

During the Senate debate on Clay’s Compromise, what region does Webster claim to be speaking?

Answer 11

for the entire country

Question 12

Calhoun says, “If somthing is not done to arrest it, the South will be forced to choose between abolition and succession. What does “it” refer to?

Answer 12

attacks on slavery

Question 13

What event did both southerners & northerners worry would destroy the balance of power between them?

Answer 13

California’s admission to the Union

Question 14

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 14

a proposed law that would have banned slavery from lands gained as a result of the Mexican-American War

Question 15

Did the Wilmot Proviso successfully address the nation’s divisions over slavery?

Answer 15

No, it angered and frightened the South.

Question 16

What were the main issues that led to Henry Clay’s roposed compromise?

Answer 16

California applying to be a state, northern desire to ban the slave trade in D.C. and the South wanting a fugitive slave law

Question 17

Possible sentence to describe how you feel about the need to compromise if you were a member of congress from the North:

Answer 17

Slavery is wrong, but I will compromise to keep the Union together. or Slavery is wrong, and no compromise is possible, not even to save the Union.

Question 18

What did southerners want Congress to do about enslaved people who had fled to the North?

Answer 18

pass a law that would force the return of fugitives