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Guided Reading
Toward Civil War
Lesson 1 The Search for Compromise

ESSENTIAL QUESTION
Why does conflict develop?

Political Conflict Over Slavery

Listing what part each event, person, or group played in the conflict
over slavery.

Person, or Group Part Played

Missouri compromise
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Compromise of 1850

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Popular sovereignty

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Fugitive slave act__
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1. Analyzing How could adding a new state to the Union add

to the conflict over slavery?

2. Identifying Who were the border ruffians?

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3. Paraphrasing Describe in your own words what happened in Kansas that led
newspapers to write about “Bleeding Kansas.”

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Toward Civil War