Reference no: EM133341101
Assignment:
Part 1
Answer the following questions in two to three complete sentences. (Each question is worth three points)
1. Who were Free Soilers and what does their role in the events described in this lesson reveal about the views of a large segment of northern society?
2. What did the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case reveal about the values and priorities of the judges who supported it? Which segment of the American population was more likely to agree with their views?
3. Compare and contrast early efforts by Paul Cuffee and those of the American Colonization Society (ACS) to relocate free African Americans to West Africa. What goals did they share in common and how did their motives reveal their differences?
4. How did the cultivation of cotton change the location of slavery?
5. Why was negotiating the Missouri Compromise so important to the political and social stability of the nation?
6. Explain why northerners wanted to charge high tariffs on foreign manufactured goods and southerners wanted to charge high tariffs on foreign crops.
Part 2
Answer the following questions by writing at least a paragraph (five sentences). (Each question is worth ten points)
1. Explain how the cotton gin had an impact on the slavery and farming practice in the South.
2. Analyze the elements of the Compromise of 1850 and determine which elements were intended to please states in the North or South. Do you think the Compromise did or did not succeed in avoiding further conflict between the two regions? Why or why not?