NAME DATE Guided Reading
CLASS netw rks
Toward Civil War
Lesson 1 The Search for Compromise
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
Why does conflict develop?
Political Conflict Over Slavery
Listing Use the chart to note what part each event, person,
or group played in the conflict over slavery.
Event, Person, or Group
Part Played
David Wilmot
John C. Calhoun
Free-Soil Party
1. Analyzing How could adding a new state to the Union add
to the conflict over slavery?
Copyright by The McGraw-Hill Companies.
Underground Railroad
NAME DATE Guided Reading Cont.
CLASS netw rks
Toward Civil War
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Directions Use your textbook to help you complete the
following activities.
1. Sequencing Number these events in the order in which
they happened.
a. Senator Stephen A. Douglas proposes popular
sovereignty.
b. A vote in Kansas makes slavery legal.
c. Franklin Pierce becomes president. d. The Kansas-Nebraska Act is passed.
2. Identifying Who were the border ruffians?
4. Making a Judgment Do you think it was right for the
antislavery supporters in Kansas to start a rival
government? Why or why not?
Copyright by The McGraw-Hill Companies.
3. Paraphrasing Describe in your own words what happened
in Kansas that led newspapers to write about “Bleeding
Kansas.”