US_Ch1_homework-2

=**U.S. History 1850-Present Chapter 1 Homework #2**= Answer the following on notebook paper.

1. Manifest Destiny can be used to describe whose administration? (A) Zachary Taylor (B) James Polk (C) Millard Fillmore (D) Franklin Pierce (E) all (F) none

2. Signing the Compromise of 1850 was under whose administration? (A) Zachary Taylor (B) James Polk (C) Millard Fillmore (D) Franklin Pierce (E) all (F) none

3. Which part of the compromise had the most negative impact? (A) admission of CA (B) end Underground Railroad (C) Fugitive Slave Act (D) ended Missouri Compromise (E) all (F) none

4. Signing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was under whose administration? (A) Zachary Taylor (B) James Polk (C) Millard Fillmore (D) Franklin Pierce (E) all (F) none

5. Which event doomed the Buchanan Administration from the start (A) Dred Scott case (B) Panic of 1857 (C) Fugitive Slave Act (D) South secedes and forms a nation (E) all (F) none

6. When Martin Van Buren formed his new party structure, his goal was to avoid slavery, but what transpired was (A) destruction of his party (B) permanent spoils system (C) increase in size of government and offering programs or legislation for votes (D) avoided slavery (E) all (F) none

7. What is true about the Republican Party? (A) they formed to end slavery (B) they formed in response to Kansas-Nebraska Act (C) John C. Fremont was the party’s first presidential candidate (D) they would gradually gain seats in Congress in the 1850s (E) all (F) none

8. Why was the Dred Scott case damaging? (A) it began the Civil War (B) abolitionists grew (C) it said slavery could exist anywhere (D) it wasn’t damaging (E) all (F) none

9. One of the case’s unintended consequences was the Panic of 1857 as businesses were worried of more conflicts between pro-slave and anti-slave advocates since businesses hate (A) profits (B) workers (C) uncertainty (D) war (E) all (F) none

10. Who led an attempted slave uprising at Harper’s Ferry in 1859, which was a cause of the war? (A) John Brown (B) Stephen Douglas (C) Henry Clay (D) Charles Sumner (E) all (F) none

11. Why did Kansas get labeled “Bleeding Kansas?”

12. What was an event that swung the political pendulum north?

13. What was an event that swung the political pendulum south?

14. Why would this chapter be titled “The House Dividing?”

15. Who divided the house the most? Why did you choose this person over others?

16. What event divided the house the most? Why did you choose this event over other events?

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;">17. Where was the division of the nation?

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;">18. When did the house start to divide (not date, but choose an event)?

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;">19. Why was the house dividing?

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;">20. How did the house eventually show its complete division?

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