1. a) 170 b) 170 c) 171 d) 173 e) 173 f) 174 g) 174 2. a) 172 b) 173 c) 173 d) 173 e) 174
3. It really only addressed the issue of California, and southerners were not satisfied by it. Stephen Douglas went on to undo the Compromise of 1850 by reopening the issue slavery in the territories with the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
4. Many Whig voters were disgusted with politicians’ fondness for compromise on the slavery issue; the old issues had divided political parties in the 1830’s seemed largely resolved; the politicians of the old system were dead or dying.
5. The issue of nativism.
6. It proposed popular sovereignty.
7. The Republicans adopted the nativist ideas of the American party and drew voters away from that party, making their own party a single powerful force against both slavery and Catholicism.
8. Have one President from the North and one from the South; introduce some kind of veto power for southern states in Congress; have an equal number of members of Congress from the North and the South.
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