1. How did the controversy over slavery become violent?
2. What changes in political parties took place in the 1840s and 1850s?
3. Why did the Southern states secede?
4. Explain why John Brown was convicted of treason.
5. What did the Compromise of 1850 propose?
Answer:
1. Violence soon erupted as both factions fought for control.
2. The slavery issue changed political parties. The Whig Party collapsed, divided between anti slavery Northerners and proslavery Southerners. With this split, a Democrat won the 1852 campaign for president. Some Whigs joined the new American party.
3. because northern states wanted to make slavery illegal but the sourthern states needed slaves to work on their feilds to pick crops (no one else would pick crops ).
4. John Brown was guilty of treason because he made war against the United States by attacking and taking control of the US military installation at Harper's Ferry.
5. The Compromise of 1850: The general solution that was adopted by the Compromise of 1850 was to transfer a conciderable part of the territory claimed by the state of Texas, to federal government, to formally organize two new territories.