USHC 3.1
Evaluate the relative importance of political events and issues that divided the nation and
led to civil war, including the compromises reached to maintain the balance of free and
slave states, the abolitionist movement, the Dred Scott case, conflicting views on states’
rights and federal authority, the emergence of the Republican Party, and the formation of
the Confederate States of America.
Events Leading to the Civil War
Monroe
1820 ________________ Compromise
___°___′
J.Q. Adams
1. ____________________
1828 Tariff of ____________________
2. ____________________
Jackson
1828-1833 ____________________ Crisis
1831
3. ____________________
WHO LOSES?
__________________ published
William Lloyd _____________________
1836
Texas _______________
1845
Texas _______________
Van Buren
Tyler
Polk
Clay’s American System
_______________________
The Great Compromiser
1. ____________________(18___)
2. ____________________(18___)
1846-1848 _____________________ War
_________________ Proviso
3. ____________________(18___)
No __________ in territories gained from ___________
(Never passed Congress, but still considered influential)
Abolitionism vs. Free Soil
Taylor
Fillmore
Abolitionism
Free Soil
Geographic Base: __________________________
Geographic Base: __________________________
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 had five provisions:
1. ________________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________________
3. ________________________________________________________
4. ________________________________________________________
5. ________________________________________________________
The Crisis of the 1850s
The 1830s vs. the 1850s
1830s
Pierce
1852 __________________________ published
1850s
IMPACT:
1854 _______________-__________________ Act
Popular Sovereignty (Stephen Douglas)
____________________ Party Founded
PLATFORM: _____________________
1856 “Bleeding ____________________”
Notable abolitionist involved: _____________ ________________
Sen. Charles Sumner, “The Crime Against Kansas”
Buchanan
_______________-__________________ Beating
1857 _____________ _______________ v. Sandford
1. _______________________________________________
In his inflammatory
Senate speech, Sumner
compared Sen. Andrew
Butler (SC) to Don
Quixote, provoking an
angry response from
Butler’s relative, Rep.
Preston Brooks.
2. _______________________________________________
3. Nullified the ______________ ________________
1859 John Brown’s _______________’s Ferry Raid
1860 ______________________ Elected President
Lincoln
Lincoln’s election resulted in the ___________________ of the states of the
Deep South and the formation of the Confederate States of America.