ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

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Chapter Review

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

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Why did responses to the Wilmot Proviso split along sectional rather than party lines? (pp. 360–364)

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Why did the Fugitive Slave Act provoke such strong opposition in the North? (pp. 365–370)

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Why did the Whig Party disintegrate in the 1850s? (pp. 370–374)

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Why did the Dred Scott decision strengthen northern suspicions of a "Slave Power" conspiracy? (pp. 374–379)

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Why did some southern states secede immediately after Lincoln's election? (pp. 379–383)