focus questions – 9/7/06

Focus Questions – 9/7/06

1.Why did workers go on strike in the early 1800s?

2.What was the result of the Second Great Awakening?

3.Explain the purpose of the abolition movement. Identify its leaders.

4.What did Nat Turner do? How did slave owners respond?

The Civil War: Causes

I. Slavery: A Dividing Issue

A. Controversy Worsens

A. Controversy Worsens

1.South: relies on ________ labor

wants slavery to spread ____

2.North: industrialized, uses ___ labor

opposed to _____ in the west

B. Slavery in the Territories

B. Slavery in the Territories

1. California-1849, applies for statehood as a ___ state >>> angers the _______-South threatens secession>____

2. Compromise of 1850-California admitted as free state-Texas admitted as ____ state-Popular sovereignty (_____) will allow the people of the new states to decide if they will be free or slave

C. Protest, Resistance, Violence

1. Fugitive Slave Act-slaves caught in the North, must be returned to their owners in the South.-those helping slaves escape are __ and __.

2. Northern Response-Abolitionists develop the _____ ____to help slaves get to __________.-__ _ is the most famous “conductor”.

3. Uncle Tom’s Cabin >> anti-slavery book by Harriet Beecher Stowe; increases protests

2. Underground Railroad

3. Violence in the States & Congress

a.Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 -allows people to vote on ____ issueb. “Bleeding Kansas” -___ people from Missouri vote in Kansas >>

Kansas becomes a __state -fighting breaks out between __ and __c.Violence in Congress -Congressman Preston Brooks attacks

Senator Charles Sumner over slavery issue.

3. Violence in States

4. Violence in Congress

II. Conflicts Lead to Secession

A. Dred Scott v. Sanford

-slave taken to a __ territory

by owner

-Scott claims he is ____

-Supreme Court rules against

Scott >> he is not a _______

Result >> North is ________

South thinks _____

B. A New President Leads to Secession

1.Election of 1860

-Abraham Lincoln, who is ___ - slavery

wins the election >> South is ______

2.South Separates from the Union

-South secedes and forms ________

-___ is elected president of it

Lincoln Becomes President

The South Secedes

Chapter 10

1.Write a one paragraph summary of the chapter. (minimum of 4 sentences.)

2.What happens to Jerry? What happens to Ned?

3.Why didn’t Tim feel like “being a Tory anymore” at the end of the chapter?

II. New Political Parties Emerge

1.Democrats2.Whigs: split over slavery issue3.Know-Nothings: (Nativist:anti-immigrant)4.Free-Soilers’:fear slavery will reduce

wages of white workers5.Republican: oppose slavery in territories

Visual Sources

http://volokh.com/files/jim-Slavery.map.gif http://www.nps.gov/boaf/urrmap.gif http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog09/maps/images/map_09_a.gif http://ktwu.washburn.edu/journeys/releases/sj2004/images/1707bleeding.jpg http://www.gprep.org/fac/sjochs/sumner-brooks.jpg http://wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/objects/31/32716/figures/DIVI274.jpg http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/civwar/scott3.gif http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/fi/000000bd.jpg http://utopia.utexas.edu/project/portraits/lincoln.jpg http://www.gamepuppet.com/civilwar/leaders/large-davis.gif