Word Splash Use the following words to make one coherent

sentence

Post

Block

Guard

Pass

Word Splash Use the following words to make one coherent

sentence

Northerners

Southerners

Missouri Compromise

Slavery

Division

Use the following words to make one coherent sentence Compromise of 1850

Popular Sovereignty

Sectionalism

Use the following words to make one coherent sentence John Brown

North

South

Division

7. 1852 Presidential Election

√ Franklin Pierce Gen. Winfield Scott John Parker Hale Democrat Whig Free Soil

Franklin Pierce

1853 – 1857 Democrat (14th)

• This 1856 political cartoon depicts President Franklin Pierce holding

down the beard of a giant Free Soiler as Senator Stephen Douglas

shoves an African-American man down the Free Soiler's throat.

12. Beating of Sumner “The Crime Against Kansas”

Sen. Charles Sumner (R-MA)

Congr. Preston Brooks (D-SC)

13. Birth of the Republican Party, 1854

ß Northern Whigs.

ß Northern Democrats.

ß Free-Soilers.

ß Know-Nothings.

ß Other miscellaneous opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

14. 1856 Presidential Election

√ James Buchanan John C. Frémont Millard Fillmore Democrat Republican Whig

James Buchanan

1857 – 1861 Democrat (15th)

16. Panic of 1857

• reduction in foreign demand for American grain

•The agricultural south weathered the crisis better than the north

•“the result was an exalted notion of King Cotton’s

importance to the world and apparent confirmation of the

growing argument that the southern system of slave-based

agriculture was superior to the free-labor system of the

north”

18. The Lincoln-Douglas (Illinois Senate) Debates, 1858

A House divided against itself, cannot stand.

Stephen Douglas & the

Freeport Doctrine

Popular Sovereignty?

20. 1860 Presidential

Election

√ Abraham Lincoln Republican

John Bell Constitutional Union

Stephen A. Douglas Northern Democrat

John C. Breckinridge Southern Democrat

1860 Election: A Nation Coming Apart?!

1860

Election

Results

21. Crittenden Compromise: A Last Ditch Appeal to Sanity

Senator John J. Crittenden (Know-Nothing-KY)

Proposed amendment to protect slavery south of

36’30’

22. Secession!: SC Dec. 20, 1860

Illustrated Timeline of the

Causes of the Civil War

• Choose 8 events that led to the Civil

War.

• Put them in chronological order on a

timeline and make sure you have a

description and picture for each event.