The Tensions Leading Up to the Civil War Guided Notes
Background: Slavery in the U.S. was based on
_____.
________ slavery means that children born of
slaves were born _______.
1850: Required all ______ and officials of
free states to cooperate in the______ of all
______
______ to their owner.
1852: ________ ______ ______publishes
______ ____ _______.
A novel which depicted slavery in a very
________ light and had a significant effect on
_____ ______ on slavery both in the ___ and
______.
The best selling novel of
the 19th century.
1854: Created the territories of _____ and
______.
Repealed the _____ _______. It called for
______ _______ to decide whether these new
territories would be free or slave states.
Contributed towards ______ _______.
Background: The ________ __________ was
an agreement which prohibited slavery north
of the _______ parallel.
It was meant to be a solution to the debate of
new states becoming _____ or _____ states.
1854-1861: A conflict in the Kansas Territory
between the ________ ________ and the
_______ ______ ________.
The conflict was centered around whether
______ would allow or prohibit ______. The
decision would directly impact the ______ of
_____ in the __ _____ which was divided
over the issue of slavery.
The ______ in Kansas contributed to a
national perception that the dispute over
______ would not be solved without violence.
1857: Supreme Court ruling in ____ _____
case declares _________ ______
unconstitutional.
The case was centered around when ____
_____, an enslaved man, was taken by his
owners into a free state where slavery was
illegal.
 The ______ _______ ruled that slaves did
not have the rights of an _____ _____,
and instead were _______. Slave owners
could take their slave to any part of the
country legally.
The Court also declared the Missouri
Compromise as exceeding the __ _______
constitutional powers and therefore was
unconstitutional.
1858: _______ ______ and ________
_______ debate the issue of slavery in the
west.
These debates were focused around _____
and meant to generate ______ around the
election and their views on the most _______
topic of the time.
These debates as well as the ______ ______
represented to many people the direction that
the country would go in an extremely divided
time.