Name:________________________________Per:________
17.1 The Search for Compromise
1. Define the following terms:
Fugitive
Secede
Border Ruffian
Civil War
Political Conflict Over Slavery
2. Read about how the conflict over slavery developed in the 1800s and fill in the chart below.
The 1820 ___________
___________ protested
Neither bill passed, but
___________________
the idea. Senator
both caused _________
temporarily stopped the
________ said Conress
debate. No immediate
debate over slavery.
could not ban slavery.
action was taken.
After _______ election
Proposed soon after the
Both candidates in the
in 1844, __________
war began, the _______
election of _________
was admitted to the
__________ would ban
ignored slavery, which
Union in 1845.
slavery in new territory.
_________ some voters
Border disputes and
The issue of gaining
Those who opposed
Polk's desire for more
_____________ led the
territorial expansion of
land led to the
country into a new era
slavery formed the
___________________
of _________________
___________________
3. What events and debates created a need for compromise in 1850?
4. Label and fill in the chart below.
1. Senator _____________________ suggested the compromise.

California would be a __________ state.

Other ______ territories would have _____ limits on _____________.

The slave _________, but not slavery itself, would be ____________ in Washington D.C.

There would be a stronger __________________________________.
2. Senator ____________ opposed the plan and Senator ______________________ supported it.
3. Senator _________________________ solved the problem, and the compromise __________
5. The Fugitive Slave Act said anyone who helped a fugitive could be fined or imprisoned. How
did Northerners respond to the act?
1. ____________________________________________________________________________
2.____________________________________________________________________________
3. ____________________________________________________________________________
4. ____________________________________________________________________________
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
6. Read about the Kansas-Nebraska Act and fill in the diagram below.
Proposal
Voting Results
Southern Support
The KansasNebraska Act:
settling the issue of
_________ in the
________________
Bleeding Kansas
17.2 Challenges to Slavery
1. Define the following terms:
Arsenal
Martyr
Birth of the Republican Party
2. Describe the members and goals of the Republican Party below.
Members: _____________________________________________________________________
Goals: ________________________________________________________________________
Party supported in the North: _______________________________
Party supported in the South: _______________________________
3. Describe the Democratic candidate and who he appealed to in the Election of 1856.
Dred Scott v. Sanford
4. Read about the Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sanford and fill in the chart below.
Dred
Scott
Issue
Dred Scott was __________________________ for the following reasons:
Citizenship: _________________________________________________________
Decision
___________________________________________________________________
Property: ___________________________________________________________
Constitution: ________________________________________________________
Reaction
Southerners: _________________________________________________________
Northerners: _________________________________________________________
Lincoln and Douglass
5. Read about the race for Senator of Illinois in 1858 and describe it below:
Cause: ________________________________________________________________________
Topics of discussion: ____________________________________________________________
Effects: _______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
6. What happened at Harpers Ferry?
7. Read about the reactions to John Brown’s death and compare the points of view below:
Northerners
Southerners
17.3 Secession and War
1. Define the following terms:
Secession
States’ rights
The 1860 Election
2. How was Lincoln able to win a clear majority in the Election of 1860?
3. Read about the secession of southern states and fill in the chart below.
Cause: Republicans promised not to
Effect:
stop slavery where it already existed,
but white Southerners did not trust them
Cause:
Effect: Both the North and the South
reject the idea of compromising on the
issue of slavery in the Union.
Cause: By February 1861, six other
Effect:
states--TX, LA, MS, AL, FL, and GA-had joined South Carolina and seceded.
Cause:
Effect: They believed the national
government had broken the contract and
southern states had a right to secede.
4. How did Robert E. Lee and Abraham Lincoln argue that the Union had to be preserved?
Robert E. Lee: _________________________________________________________________
Abraham Lincoln: ______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
5. How did Buchanan respond to secession?
6. What might cause the remaining slave states to secede?
7. What did Lincoln tell the South in his Inaugural Address?
Fighting at Fort Sumter
8. Number the following list of events in the order they occurred.
_________ Lincoln sent unarmed men with supplies to the fort.
_________ Lincoln issued a call for volunteer troops.
_________ The Union surrendered Fort Sumter.
_________ Lincoln was inaugurated.
_________ Jefferson Davis ordered Confederate forces to attack.
_________ Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas join the Confederacy.
_________ Lincoln gets a message from Ft. Sumter about low supplies and Confederate threats
_________ High seas kept Union ships from reaching the fort.
9. What is the significance of the fighting at Fort Sumter?