CHAPTER VIII - RENEWING THE SECTIONAL STRUGGLE

REVISED

1. How was the compaign of 1848 generally a real gasser?
   
2. How did California's candidacy for statehood complicate the slavery issue?
   
3. What was the underground railroad? How effective was it in reaching its goal?
   
4. Why was Henry Clay dubbed the "great compromiser"?
   
5. What was the substance of the Compromise of 1850? On balance, did North or South win the compromise? Why?
   
6. Why did the Bloodhound Bill "backfire"?
   
7. What did Matthew C. Perry accomplish for America?
   
8. How was the Pierce administration embarrassed by the Cuban fiasco of 1854?
   
9. Why did Southerners hope that filibustering expeditions might return them to power in Congress?
   
10. What did the Gadsen Purchase and the transcontinental railroad have to do with each other?
    
11. What was Douglas' Kansas-Nebraska scheme? Why did he propose it? How
    did it work out?
    
12. How and when did the Republican party come into existence? Who were its leaders?