Review Questions
- How might the Compromise of 1850 have eased sectional tensions?
- Why did the Compromise of 1850 fail to achieve sectional peace?
- Why did the Whig Party disintegrate in the 1850s?
- Why did the Dred Scott decision strengthen northern suspicions of a Slave Power conspiracy?
- Why were the states of the Lower and Upper South divided on the question of secession during the winter of 1860–61?