ssahirnsgch10oc06.fm Page 170 Sunday, March 6, 2005 6:33 PM
Chapter 10 Notetaking Study Guide
Now you are ready to answer the Chapter 10 Focus Question: How did the nation try
but fail to deal with growing sectional differences?
Complete the following chart to help you answer this question. Use the notes that you
took for each section.
The Nation Divided
Growing Tensions Over Slavery
The Wilmot Proviso
California
• Description: ______________________
• Both
sides
realized
its admission to the
a plan to ban slavery in all SW lands
that
become
states
Its fate: Blocked in _____________,
Union would upset the balance of free
Senate
slaveholding states saw it as an
and slave states.
___________
on slavery.
• The South threatens: ______________
attack
secession
Compromises Fail
To please the North, the Compromise of 1850 To please the South, the Compromise of 1850
• admitted California as a free state
• popular sovereignty in the rest of Mexican Cession
D.C.)
slave law
• banned slave trade in the U.S. capital (Washington
• fugitive
The Kansas-Nebraska Act essentially undid ______________________________.
the Missouri Compromise
Harriet Beecher Stowe published ___________________________
in 1852. A bestseller in
Uncle Tom's Cabin
the North, it was written off as ____________________
in
the
South.
propaganda
The Crisis Deepens
• Abraham Lincoln ran against __________________
for the Illinois Senate in 1858.
Stephen Douglas
• In their debates, Lincoln took a stand against slavery saying African Americans should
be entitled to the rights stated in __________________________________.
Declaration of Independence
• After he was executed for raiding Harpers Ferry and trying to lead a slave revolt,
_______________
was considered a hero by many northerners.
John Brown
The Coming of the Civil War
To many southerners, the election of Lincoln
meant that the South no longer had a voice
in ________________________________.
national government
Lincoln’s assurance of friendship in his inaugural address was ______________
by the
rejected
seceding states.
The Confederate attack on ____________________
marked the beginning of the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
Refer to this page to answer the Unit 5 Focus Question on page 199.
170
Unit 5 Chapter 10 Notetaking Study Guide
© Pearson Education, Inc., Publishing as Pearson Prentice Hall. All Rights Reserved.
The Dred Scott case declared _______________________
unconstitutional and opened
the Missouri Compromise
all territories ___________________.
to slavery