World History I
The Conflict Intensifies
Downey 284 - 288
Reading #1: The War with Mexico raises the Slavery Question
Guiding Questions:
1. What were two slavery proposals on what to do with the land won from Mexico?
2. Why did the discovery of gold in California create a crisis for the nation?
Peace Treaty (Page 284)
1. The Mexican American War ended in _________ (year) with the Treaty of ______________
_________________. The U.S. gained the present day states of ______________, __________,
___________, and parts of _______________ and ________________.
Revival of Slavery Issue (Page 286)
2. Why had many Northerners opposed war with Mexico?
3. What was the Wilmot Proviso? Who opposed it?
Deadlock Over Slavery
4. Democrat David Lewis ________ ran for the Presidency in 1848 and proposed the
_____________ of a territory would vote to decide whether slavery should be allowed (This was
known as popular sovereignty).
5. The Free Soil Party Candidate ____________ ______ ________ believed that slavery (should /
should not) be allowed in the land taken from Mexico in the Mexican American War.
5 6. Why did thousands of people flock to California in the late 1840s?
7. California hoped to become a state but the U.S. government (Congress) could not act as there
was controversy over whether California would become a _______ or __________ state.
1. What were two slavery proposals on what to do with the land won from Mexico?
Wilmot Proviso & Free Soil Party:
Cass Proposal:
2. Why did the discovery of gold in California create a crisis for the nation?
Reading #1: Compromise of 1850 helps ease slavery tensions (Pages 295 –
297)
3. Explain three of the five parts of the Compromise of 1850.
4. What was the Fugitive Slave Act and why did some Northerners despise it?
Thinking on Your Own (Page 295)
8. In 1849 California asked to join the U.S. as a ________ territory (and later state). The ________
favored the request while the ________ was furious.
6 The Compromise of 1850
9. What were three parts of the Compromise of 1850?
A.
B.
C.
Reaction to the Compromise of 1850
10. One of the most controversial parts of the Compromise regarded the Fugitive Slave Law. What
did this law require Northern U.S. marshals to do? Why might this have upset Northerners?
3. Explain three of the five parts of the Compromise of 1850?
1.
2.
3.
4. What was the Fugitive Slave Act and why did some Northerners despise it?
What was it?
Why hated in North?
7 World History I
The Conflict Intensifies
Downey 298 – 303
Reading #2: Tensions Mount over Uncle Tom’s Cabin & Popular Sovereignty
Guiding Questions:
1. How did the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin contribute to tension between the North and the South?
2. What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act and how did it result in “Bleeding Kansas” or a civil war?
3. What new political party was created in 1854 and why was it created?
4. Why was Senator Sumner beaten in the Senate in 1856?
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Page 298)
1. What was the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin about? Why might this book have created division or
tension between the North and the South?
Kansas-Nebraska Bill (Page 299)
2. Senator Stephen Douglas proposed the Kansas and Nebraska (land that was not yet states) (see
map on page 300) be allowed to _______ to decide if they wanted slavery. This idea of letting the
people decide by voting was called _________ _____________. This proposal upset many
Northerners as the ______ ____________ had outlawed slavery in lands North of Missouri.
Reaction to the Kansas Nebraska Bill
3. Why did “Free Soilers” oppose slavery in the new territories (U.S. land that was not yet states)?
4. True / False: In 1854 the Kansas – Nebraska was signed into law.
5. What new political party was created in 1854 (and is still around today)? Why was it created?
8 National Crisis (Page 303)
6. Why was there fighting (civil war) in Kansas in 1856?
7. What U.S. Senator was beaten (in the Senate) in May of 1856? Why?
1. What was Uncle Tom’s Cabin and how did it contribute to tension between the North and the
South?
2. What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act and how did it result in “Bleeding Kansas” or a civil war
3. What new political party was created in 1854 and why was it created?
4. Why did Preston Brooks “cane” Charles Sumner in the Senate in 1856?
9 World History I
The Conflict Intensifies
Downey 304 - 307
Reading #3: Two Court Rulings Rip Apart the Nation
Guiding Questions:
1. What were TWO parts of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dred Scott v. Sanford?
2. Who was John Brown? Was he successful in achieving his goal? Why did his actions
create division between the North and the South?
Dred Scott Decision – Page 304 & Page 307
1. Who was Dred Scott? Why did he believe he should be free?
2. The Supreme Court Ruled in the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision:
A. Dred Scott was free / still a slave (Circle one)
B. Dred Scott had a right / had no right to take his case to the Supreme Court as he
was / was not a U.S. citizen. (Circle one in each group)
C. Congress could / could not keep slaves out of Louisiana or the land taken in the Mexican
American war.
3. In 1858, Republican __________ ___________ (who opposed the expansion of slavery) ran
against Stephen Douglas for a seat in the U.S. Senate. (Circle the winner’s name.)
John Brown’s Raid (Page 305)
4. Who was John Brown?
5. What did he seek to do? Was he successful in achieving his goal?
6. Why did John Brown’s raid create tension between the North and the South?
10 1. What were TWO parts of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dred Scott v. Sanford?
1.
2.
2. Who was John Brown? Was he successful in achieving his goal? Why did his actions create
division between the North and the South?
John Brown?
Successful:
Why did his actions create division?
11 World History I – Mr. Horas
Southern States Secede
Downey 306 - 312
Reading #4 The Union Dissolves
Guiding Questions:
1. What was the Confederacy? Who was its first president?
2. How did fighting in the Civil War actually begin?
3. What were the five border states?
The Election of 1860 (Page 306)
1. In the Presidential Election of 1860 _______ _________, a Republican was elected.
Skill Builder (Page 309)
2. Which party carried most free states in the 1860 election?
3. Which candidate won the most slave states?
4. What is surprising about Stephen Douglas’s election results?
5. Why might the seven slave states decided to secede (break off) after the 1860 presidential
election? (This is an opinion question.)
War Begins (Page 311)
Thinking on Your Own
6. List the seven states that broke off (seceded) from the U.S. by the spring of 1861.
7. __________ ________ was chosen President the Confederate States of America (Confederacy).
12 8. True / False: In his first (inaugural) address as president, Abraham Lincoln said he hoped to
abolish slavery
The War Begins
9. On _________ ______ 1861, Jefferson Davis ordered the Confederate military to take ______
__________, a federal (Northern) fort in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War had now officially
begun.
10. Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas joined the ___________. Surprisingly, FIVE
slave states __________, ___________, ____________, ___________ and ________ Virginia
remained with the Union and did NOT break off. These five slave states are known as the Border
States.
1. What was the Confederacy? Who was its first president?
What?
President:
2. How did fighting in the Civil War actually begin?
3. What were the five border states?
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