STEP 1: EXPLAIN WHY IT MATTERS
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
free labor
popular sovereignty
Compromise of 1850
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Fugitive Slave Act
Kansa
s-
Nebraska Act
Republican Party
“
Bleeding Kansas”
Dred Scott
decision
Lincol
n-
Douglas debates
Confederate States of America
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