Homework - 9/16

Due Tuesday:  Read pages 156-162 in the textbook (stop at "Conflicts lead to Secession") and answer the following questions:

1. Why was the issue of slavery in the United States so significant by 1850?
2. What was the "Compromise of 1850"?  How did it attempt to address the slavery issue?
3. Explain the influence that the Underground Railroad and the book Uncle Tom's Cabin had on challenging the institution of slavery.
4. Why did the formation of the Kansas and Nebraska territories cause such violence in Kansas by 1855?
5. What is being depicted in the political cartoon on page 161?  What is the importance of that event?
6. What three political parties developed in the 1850s?  What were the basic principles of each of them?