Chapter+19+Reading+Objectives

__**Reading Objectives**__ After reading this chapter, you should be able to: 1.Enumerate the sequence of major crises, beginning with the Kansas-Nebraska Act, that led up to secession, and explain the significance of each event. (pg. 437-441) 2. Explain how and why the territory of bleeding Kansas became the scene of a dress rehearsal for the Civil War. (pg. 441-443) 3.Trace the growing power of the Republican Party in the 1850s and the increasing domination of the Democratic Party by its militantly proslavery wing. (pg. 443-444) 4. Explain how the Dred Scott decision and John Brown’s Harpers Ferry raid deepened sectional antagonism. (pg. 444-447, 450-451) 5.Trace the rise of Lincoln as a Republican spokesman, and explain why his senatorial campaign debates with Stephen Douglas made him a major national figure despite losing the election. (pg. 447-450) 6.Analyze the election of 1860, including the split in the Democratic party, the four-way campaign, the sharp sectional divisions, and Lincoln’s northern-based minority victory. (pg 451-455) 7.Describe the secession of seven southern states following Lincoln’s victory, the formation of the Confederacy, and the failure of the last compromise effort. (pg. 455-459)