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The Enduring Vision,
Fifth Edition
Paul S. Boyer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Clifford E. Clark, Jr., Carleton College
et al.
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Chapter 14:
From Compromise to Secession, 1850-1861
- Discuss the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. How did northerners
attempt to prevent its enforcement?
- What were the provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? Why did it anger and alarm many northerners?
- What brought about civil war in Kansas in 1856?
- Explain Lincoln's position on slavery when he ran for the Senate in 1858 and for president
in 1860.
- Explain the impact of John Brown's Harpers Ferry raid on the South's mood and thought.
- Discuss the political impact of the Confederacy's seizure of Fort Sumter.
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