Make a prediction statement – Day 3
Answer the question in paragraph form. The paragraph must be 6-10 sentences long and it
must include at least two reasons from the Culture & Economics Charts to back up your opinion.
After learning about the economies of both the North and the South, how do you
feel this will impact the Civil War?
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Causes of the Civil War – Day 4
Use the slides to fill in the missing information in the timeline and answer questions.
1. What allows a state to make its own laws? _______________ ______________
2. (True/False) Before the Compromise of 1820 the number of slave and free states were equal.
3. In the Missouri Compromise of 1820, ________________________ enters as a free state.
4. In the Missouri Compromise of 1820, ________________________ enters as a slave state.
5. (True/False) Nat Turner was a slave.
6. Turner’s rebellion took place in ________ and his group consisted of more than _______
slaves.
7. (True/False) Nat Turner was able to escape to Canada.
8. The effect of the rebellion was that __________ ___________ become stricter.
9. The Compromise of 1850 came into effect because the U.S. had new land from a war with
what country? _____________________
10. __________________________ was admitted as a (free/ slave) state in the Compromise
of 1850.
11. What did the South win in the Compromise of 1850? ____________ ____________
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12. What book caused many to join the abolitionists? ______________ _____________
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13. Who is the author of the book? _______________ _______________ _____________
14. How many territories did the Kansas-Nebraska Act create? ______________
15. The ability for the citizens of a state to decide whether or not it should be a slave state or
a free state was called ______________________ ______________________
16. The Kansas-Nebraska Act caused what big event? ________________ _______________
17. Where else did we see violence because of the Act? ____________________________
18. What decision answered whether a slave was a person or property? __________________
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19. How many Southern judges were on the Supreme Court at that time? _______
20. Besides slaves being considered property the Court also decided that slaves were not
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21. Did Dred Scott get his freedom? (Yes/ No)
22. Who was the leader of the violence in Kansas and Harper’s Ferry?
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23. (True/ False) After the attack at Harper’s Ferry, the South became fearful of northern
abolitionists.
24. John Brown was convicted of ______________________________.
Election–Secession Timeline – Day 7
Use the slides to fill in the missing information in the timeline and answer questions.
Election of 1860, Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the U.S.
November, __, 18__ __
The South became fearful that this new president would ________________
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Secession of _______________ _________________
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What does secession mean? _______________________________________
_____________________________________________________________ Why did this state secede from the U.S.? ___________________________
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Secession of ____ more states from the U.S.
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List the states that seceded: _____________________________________
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Secession of ______ additional states from the U.S.
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_____________ becomes the capital of the Confederacy
April _ _, _ _ _ _