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
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Republican Party
Bleeding Kansas”
Dred Scott decision
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Confederate States of America