Ch. 18 - Think & Share

Alright, AP gang. hopefully you recovered sufficiently from your Pity Party and Tryptophan Hangover to work this week! Below are the Ch. 18 Think & Share Questions assigned today:

1. How did the California Gold Rush result in inflaming strong sectional disputes? - Phillip

2. Explain how the issue of slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico disrupted American politics from 1848 to1850. – Jini C.

3. Who supported and who opposed the Compromise of 1850, what were its main provisions, and how did it pass? - Derek

4. Point out the major terms of the Compromise of 1850 and indicate how the Compromise of 1850 attempted to defuse the sectional crisis over slavery. - Aby

5. Explain why the Fugitive Slave Law included in the Compromise of 1850 stirred moral outrage and fueled antislavery agitation in the North. - Andrea

6. Why did the North so strongly resent the Fugitive Slave Law and why did the South resent northern resistance to enforcing it? - Ashley

7. Did the North, South, or West benefit most from the Compromise of 1850? Why? - Miranda

8. Indicate how the Whig party’s disintegration over slavery signaled the end of nonsectional political parties. – Summer, India

9. Describe how the Pierce administration, as well as private American adventurers, pursued numerous overseas and expansionist ventures primarily designed to expand slavery. - Kyle

10. What foreign policy agreements were made with regard to Latin America and Asia? - Dhara

11. Describe Americans’ first ventures into China and Japan in the 1850s and their diplomatic, economic, cultural, and religious consequences. - Damaris

12. Describe the nature and purpose of Douglas’s Kansas-Nebraska Act, and explain why it fiercely rekindled the slavery controversy that the Compromise of 1850 had been designed to settle. - Taylor