9 US History Student Name:_____________

Unit 1: Road to the Civil War Period: ___________________

Time Period: 1800-1860

Unit Questions

(prepare to answer these questions for unit exam)

1. What separated the North and the South economically, culturally, and politically?

2. What is the “States’ Rights” movement?

3. What political compromises held together the Union before the Civil War?

4. What incidents lead escaladed tensions between the North and South?

5. What was slavery like?

Thought Jots

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Climate and Geography

Society & Culture

Slavery: Conflict and Compromise

Directions: Answer the questions that follow using complete sentences. The questions are under the section they apply to in the reading.

Define these terms:

1. Three-Fifths Compromise 2. Missouri Compromise 3. Compromise of 1850 4. Fugitive Slave Act

Introduction:

5. What was the name of the compromise that dealt with slavery that was written into the Constitution?

6. What did the compromise do?

7. How did the Missouri Compromise solve the problem of the balance of free and slave states?

Look at 1st map in the reading for the next two questions.

8. What year was Maine admitted to the Union? Was it a free or slave state?

9. What year was Missouri admitted to the Union? Was it a free or slave state?

Excerpt from the Missouri Compromise, 1820

10. What does this section of the document state about fugitive or "runaway" slaves?

The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act

11. Who proposed the solutions for the Compromise of 1850?

12. Did California want to be a free or slave state? Why was this a problem?

13. In the compromise, how was the issue of slavery solved in the territories of New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah?

14. What happened to the issue of slavery in the District of Columbia?

15. When California was admitted as a free state, what was passed to pacify [to calm someone who is angry] southern states?

16. What did the Fugitive Slave Act require officers of the law to do?

17. What does the newspaper poster (in this section of the reading) warn the colored people of Boston about?

18. Why do you think many slaves fled to Canada after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act?

19. What organization became more active after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act?

20. What did the Compromise of 1850 accomplish?

21. What issue would divide the country for the next decade?

22. What do you think would be the result of the divisions between free and slave states?

Questions Referring to last map of the reading:

19. Look at Compromise of 1850 map. What were the territories open to slavery?

20. What do you think might happen in the territories that were open to slavery?

Federalism is a theory of government in which the power to govern is shared between the national government and the state governments. The American system of government is built on this model of government. For example, when the states banned together to form the new government, each state gave up its’ right to coin money. This was a job designated to the new federal government. By giving up a little independence, under federalism, the states had a larger government that could react to the concerns of all Americans. You could represent federalism with this picture:

Federal Government

Each state is “covered” by the giant umbrella of the federal government.

Kentucky Texas

Virginia

Unit: Lesson 3 Resource A.1

States’ Right is the belief that each individual state has the exclusive power to govern themselves. Under states’ rights, individual states retain all powers to govern except those listed in the Constitution. During the years leading up to the Civil War, southerners felt they had to defend these rights against the federal government which was infringing upon them. People of the South justified their succession from the United States because they felt when the government refused to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law and tried to limit slavery in territories it was an invasion upon their rights. This “invasion” gave them the right to abolish all ties with the United States. It was upon this belief that the Confederate States of America was formed. A picture of states’ rights might look like this:

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Unit: Lesson 3 Resource A.2

Incidents on the Road to War

Direction: As you learn about the reasons for the South’s secession, fill out the chart.

Event Supporters (North/South)

Reasons for their Support

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Dred Scott Decision

Bleeding Kansas

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

John Brown’s Raid

Name:

Questions forOther Committees

Group/Question Group/QuestionEconomicBalance #1

Economic Balance #2

Military Balance #1

Military Balance #2

Diplomatic Balance #1

Diplomatic Balance #2

Constitutional Balance #1

Constitutional Balance #1

Name:Committee:

You should come up with at least 3 questions. Each questions should be for a different group.

Score CardDiplomatic Balance

Constitutional Balance

Military Balance Economic Balance

CriticalWeakness

CriticalStrength

Name:

NORTH’S SCORE SOUTH’S SCOREVOTE

REASON:

Road to the Civil War Study Guide

NOTE: The Jeopardy Review Game would be a great time to fill it out!

Unit Questions

1. What separated the North and the South economically, culturally, and politically?

2. What is the “States’ Rights” movement?

3. What political compromises held together the Union before the Civil War?

4. What incidents lead escaladed tensions between the North and South?

5. What was slavery like?

Years 1800-1820

1. What are three economic differences between the North and the South?

2. What are three climate/geographic differences between the North and the South?

3. What are three social/cultural differences between the North and the South?

4. Why are these factors significant on the road to the Civil War?

Road to Compromise (1820-1850)

1. What is the Three-Fifths Compromise? Why is it significant on the road to the Civil War?

2. What is the Missouri Compromise? Why is it significant on the road to the Civil War?

3. What is the Compromise of 1850? Why is it significant?

4. What is the Fugitive Slave Act? Why is it significant?

5. What happened in territories in the West that were allowed to decide for themselves whether

to be slave or free? Why is this significant on the road to the Civil War?

6. How did the North and the South settle their differences over slavery once they ran out of

western territories to compromise with?

Road to War (1850-1860)

1. What was Uncle Tom’s Cabin? Who supported it and why?

2. What was the Dred Scott Decision? What did this case decide about slavery? Who supported it

and why?

3. What was Bleeding Kansas? Who supported it and why?

4. What were the Lincoln Douglas Debates? Who supported them and why?

5. What was John Brown’s Raid (Harper’s Ferry)? What did John Brown plan to do? How did it turn

out? Who supported it and why?