Unit 3 A Nation Divided Chapter 9 Section 3 Troubles Build pp. 165
1856, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts made a strong speech against
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He criticized Senator Andrew Butler
of _____________________________________. Butler’s nephew, Congressman
Preston Brooks did not like Sumner’s speech. He went into the Senate and started to beat
Sumner with a cane. Based on what we know, from our earlier studies, why did this
happen?_____________________________________________________________
In 1854, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois wanted to organize Nebraska into a
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What did he want to build, and why? (x2)____________________________________
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What did Douglas suggest? _______________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________.
What did he do to gain the support of Southern legislators?______________________
_____________________________________, which means,__________________
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In the boxes below, list two facts about each section:
Nebraska
Kansas
What happened after signing the Kansas Nebraska Act, and why? __________________
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By 1855, there ___________________________________ people in the Kansas territory.
The population was large enough to ___________________________ for a government.
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Before the election groups of armed men, called _________________________, people,
whose opinions were very different from those of most people.
What happened when the voting was held? (x2) _______________________________
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Which side won? __________________. Was it fair? __________________________
Only about _______________ men were supposed to vote, but _______________ voted.
In spite of the unfair vote, a ____________________ _________ government was set up.
What else happened, which contradicted this? _________________________________
Now, Kansas had __________ governments, one _________________ slavery, and one
________________________ slavery. Now Kansas had two governments, each
claiming to be the legal government of Kansas:
List 6 facts about what happened:
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Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri who went to court to ask for his _______________.
What was his argument? (x3)
____________________________________________________________ ________
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Two state courts made different decisions about Scott. One said he was ___________.
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Another said __________________________________________________________
Scott went to the _____________________________ ___________________ in 1857.
Chief Justice Roger Taney of this court made a decision, which said:
_a_________________________________________________________________
__________________________________ ________________________________
__b _______________________________________________________________
________________ __________________________________________________
__c ______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________.___________________________
The Dred Scott decision meant that (x2) : ________________________________
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_____________________ ____________________________________________
In the following table, list facts about the candidates in the 1858 US Senate in the state
of Illinois:
Candidate’s name
Candidate’s party
One fact about candidate
Another fact about
candidate
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Lincoln and Douglas traveled around Illinois debating the question of _______________
LINCOLN
DOUGLAS
In the following table, list their beliefs and who won and lost:
He said-
Won/lost
John Brown was strongly ________________________ slavery. He believed it was his
duty to ______________ slavery. He led armed men in Kansas who ________________
five pro slavery men.
In October 1859, Brown and 21 followers _____________________________ a building
that held army weapons in Harpers Ferry, Va.
Brown planned to take the weapons and give them to ____________________________.
He wanted to lead a _________________ against slaveholders. His attack ___________
What happened to Brown? ________________________________________________.
Even though Brown failed, many Southerners were worried. Why?________________
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The Election of 1860 tested people’s feelings about _____________________________
Fill in the following table with info about the election:
Northern
Democrats
Southern
Democrats
Republicans
Who they chose for
candidate
How the candidate
felt about issues
Put an x under the
winner of the
election of 1860
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Now, Southerners felt that they were becoming _______________________________
The population of the North was much___________________________than the South.
How did Southerners feel? _______________________________________________
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Soon after the election, many southern leaders decided the South should
__________________________, or break away from the Union.
In 1860, __________________________ became the first state to secede.
List the other states that broke away from the Union by February 1861:
__________________________________________________________________
In February delegates from the seceding states met, and name their group of states:
______________________________, or the _________________________________
They wrote a _____________________________ similar to that of the US, and named
__________________________________________ as the president of the Confederacy.
Lincoln became ___________________________________________ in March 1861.
List some things, the Confederacy had already taken over:
_______________________________________________________________ _____
Lincoln believed the Southern states had __________________________ by seceding.
What did he know would happen if he sent soldiers to the South? ________________
He wanted to avoid a __________________________ or a war between regions or
groups of people in the same country.
President Lincoln said he would keep all US government property.
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List 6 facts about Fort Sumter:
________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________ ______________________________
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List 5 facts about Lincoln’s reaction:
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Do you think Lincoln wanted war?______________________________________
What happened on April 12, 1861? (x2)
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