9. State the terms of the Compromise of 1850 and explain its failure. 10. What were the startling events between 1850 and 1860? 11. Account for the rise of the Republican party. What party had used the title before? 12. How did the Dred Scott decision become a political issue? 13. What were some of the points brought out in the Lincoln-Douglas debates? 14. Describe the party division in 1860. 15. What were the main planks in the Republican platform? =Research Topics= =The Extension of Cotton Planting.=--Callender, _Economic History of the United States_, pp. 760-768. =Abolition Agitation.=--McMaster, _History of the People of the United States_, Vol. VI, pp. 271-298. =Calhoun's Defense of Slavery.=--Harding, _Select Orations Illustrating American History_, pp. 247-257. =The Compromise of 1850.=--Clay's speech in Harding, _Select Orations_, pp. 267-289. The compromise laws in Macdonald, _Documentary Source Book of American History_, pp. 383-394. Narrative account in McMaster, Vol. VIII, pp. 1-55; Elson, _History of the United States_, pp. 540-548. =The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise.=--McMaster, Vol. VIII, pp. 192-231; Elson, pp. 571-582. =The Dred Scott Case.=--McMaster, Vol. VIII, pp. 278-282. Compare the opinion of Taney and the dissent of Curtis in Macdonald, _Documentary Source Book_, pp. 405-420; Elson, pp. 595-598. =The Lincoln-Douglas Debates.=--Analysis of original speeches in Harding, _Select Orations_ pp. 309-341; Elson, pp. 598-604. =Biographical Studies.=--Calhoun, Clay, Webster, A.H. Stephens, Douglas, W.H. Seward, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. CHAPTER XV THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION "The irrepressible conflict is about to be visited upon us through the Black Republican nominee and his fanatical, diabolical Republican party," ran an appeal to the voters of South Carolina during the campaign of 1860. If that calamity comes to pass, responded the governor of the state, the answer should be a declaration of independence. In a few days the suspense was over. The news of Lincoln's election came speeding along the wires. Prepared for the event, the editor of the Charleston _Mercury_ unfurled the flag of his state amid wild cheers from an excited throng in the streets. Then he seized his pen and wrote: "The tea has been thrown overboard; the revolution of 1860 has been initiated." The issue was submitted to the voters in the choice of delegates to a state convention called to cast off the yoke of the Constitution. THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY