APUSH Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle (1848-1854) - SY23

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Welcome to your Chapter 18 reading! As you can see, we have skipped past a few more presidents, and are moving towards our next major event: the Civil War.

As always, "Focus Questions" should guide your reading and notes, but you do not necessarily have to explicitly answer them.
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The passage indicates that the American public generally liked popular sovereignty because it

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According to the passage, the Free Soil Party was a direct result of the fact that

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As used in the sentence, "condemned" most nearly means

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According to the text, the event that threatened to destroy the balance between the number of free and slave states was the

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Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?

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It can be reasonably inferred from the passage that the issue of runaway slaves was important to southerners because

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That's all due for Tuesday, 1/24/2023. Do you have any feedback or questions about the Formative reading or comprehension questions that you want to go over in class?

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Although the Northerners benefited more from the Compromise of 1850 than the Southerners, the passage indicates that Northerners were most upset about

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Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?

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As used in the text, "abhorrent" most nearly means

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The last sentence in the passage serves mainly to

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That's all due for Wednesday, 1/25/2023. Do you have any feedback or questions about the Formative reading or comprehension questions that you want to go over in class?

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It can be reasonably inferred that the only way for the U.S. to maintain control of the new Pacific Coast was to

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Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?

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The passage suggests that Stephen Dougas' plan for deciding the slavery question in the Kansas-Nebraska Act would

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Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?

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According to the passage, Stephen Douglas made a critical mistake for

Ironically, Senator Sumner would suffer one of the first physical blows of the Civil War as his "Crime Against Kansas" speech against popular sovereignty would lead Representative Preston Brooks to literally attack him with a cane on the Senate floor...

Historians will eventually refer to this event as Bleeding Sumner.

If you think politics in the U.S. is crazy, imagine if a fight broke out today! What kind of impact would that have on our country?
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As used in line 2, "measures" most nearly means

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According to the passage, the Kansas-Nebraska Act directly resulted in

Bleeding Kansas is the term used to describe the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. Proslavery and free-state settlers flooded into Kansas to try to influence the decision. Violence soon erupted as both factions fought for control.
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In your opinion, what was the most significant cause of the American Civil War from this reading?

In order to earn full credit on this assignment, your response should cite and explain a specific key term to support your claim in 2-3 complete sentences. [The purpose of this question is to help you practice for the SAQ section of the AP exam, so please answer this thoughtfully].

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Excellent reading! Close out this Chapter by reviewing the "Chapter Summary" and using the "rectange" tool to box the 5 most important key terms in the space provided.

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That's all due for Thursday, 1/26/2023. Do you have any feedback or questions about the Formative reading or comprehension questions that you want to go over in class?