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Chapter Review
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
Why did responses to the Wilmot Proviso split along sectional rather than party lines? (pp. 360–364)
Why did the Fugitive Slave Act provoke such strong opposition in the North? (pp. 365–370)
Why did the Whig Party disintegrate in the 1850s? (pp. 370–374)
Why did the Dred Scott decision strengthen northern suspicions of a "Slave Power" conspiracy? (pp. 374–379)
Why did some southern states secede immediately after Lincoln's election? (pp. 379–383)