Events Leading to the Civil War

This was a bill introduced that would ban slavery in the territories the U.S. took from Mexico.

• Wilmot Proviso

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas Nebraska Act

This allowed people to decide whether to create a free or slave state. Led to "Bleeding Kansas."

• Wilmot Proviso

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas Nebraska Act

He was a slave, who was a great speaker and abolitionist.

• John Brown

• Frederick Douglass

• Sanford

• Dred Scott

He was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom

• John Brown

• Frederick Douglass

• Sanford

• Dred Scott

Describe the economic differences between the North and the South in the 1850s.

• The North had a more industrialized economy while the South relied on agriculture, particularly cotton production using slave labor.
• Both the North and the South relied on agriculture, particularly cotton production using slave labor.
• The South had a more industrialized economy while the North relied on agriculture.
• The North and the South had similar economic structures in the 1850s.

Discuss the impacts Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe had on antislavery attitudes in the North. Select all that apply.

• Harriet Tubman was an underground railroad conductor.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin.

• The impacts of Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe on antislavery attitudes in the North were minimal.
• Both these historical events had a large impact on antislavery attitudes.

What were the basic provisions and results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act established a federal ban on slavery in all territories.
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act abolished slavery in Kansas and Nebraska.
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide on the issue of slavery and resulted in increased tensions and conflicts.

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act resulted in peaceful negotiations and compromise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions.

Why did the Republican Party grow as the Whig and Know-Nothing parties declined in the 1850s?

• The Republican Party had a charismatic and popular leader.
• The Republican Party advocated for states' rights and limited federal government.
• The Republican Party promised economic prosperity for all Americans.
• The Republican Party opposed the expansion of slavery and attracted anti-slavery activists.

Summarize the results of the election of 1856.

• Stephen A. Douglas won the election of 1856.
• John C. Frémont won the election of 1856.
• James Buchanan won the election of 1856.

  The main issue was the expansion of slavery as facilitated by the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854.

• Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1856.

Compare and contrast Abraham Lincoln’s and Stephen A. Douglas’s views about slavery in the territories.

Groups:

(a) Abraham Lincoln

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(b) Stephen Douglas

• Democratic Party

• doubted that slavery would cease to spread without legislation outlawing it in the territories.

• accused ______________ of being an abolitionist and an advocate of racial equality.

• he did not think that slavery was immoral

• believed that slavery was immoral—a labor system based on greed.

• believed deeply in popular sovereignty

• Republican Party

• look like a defender of slavery and of the Dred Scott decision.