Step Two: Explain Why It Matters
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CHAPTER 14 STUDY GUIDE
EXPLAIN WHY IT MATTERS
Put your reading into practice. Identify each term below, and then explain why it matters in U.S. history.
| TERM | WHO OR WHAT & WHEN | WHY IT MATTERS |
| Wilmot Proviso (p. 393) | ||
| free labor (p. 393) | ||
| popular sovereignty (p. 394) | ||
| Compromise of 1850 (p. 397) | ||
| Uncle Tom's Cabin (p. 398) | ||
| Fugitive Slave Act (p. 399) | ||
| Kansas-Nebraska Act (p. 402) | ||
| Republican Party (p. 406) | ||
| "Bleeding Kansas" (p. 409) | ||
| Dred Scott decision (p. 410) | ||
| Lincoln-Douglas debates (p. 412) | ||
| Confederate States of America (p. 417) |