Name: Date:
Ch 14: From Compromise to Succession, 1850-1861 (pg. 397-423)
Northern Extremist Moderate
Pd:
Southern Extremist
Believed: Congress should prohibit the extension of slavery-slavery is wrong and must be stopped from spreading
Believed: Either
A: The Missouri
Compromise Line should be extended into California or
B: Each state should decide for itself whether it would become a free or a slave state (popular sovereignty)
Believed: Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in the territories, only a duty to protect slavery there-slaves were property and their owners’ rights had to be protected.
Use your textbook to summarize each event including YEAR, AUTHOR, & EXPLANATION.
Include how a Northern or Southern Extremist would view these compromises.
Act/Event Definition
Northern
Extremist
Southern
Extremist
Wilmot Proviso
Free-Soil Party

Name: Date:
Ch 14: From Compromise to Succession, 1850-1861 (pg. 397-423)
Compromise of
1850
Pd:
Uncle Tom’s
Cabin
Kansas-
Nebraska Act
Identifications for Ch 14 Section 1 (Dates, locations, definition, significance)
“Seventh of March” Speech
Personal Liberty Laws
Election of 1852

Name: Date:
Ch 14: From Compromise to Succession, 1850-1861 (pg. 397-423)
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
After reading more about the Kansas-Nebraska Act, fill in the chart answering what part each person or action played in escalating the Kansas-Nebraska controversy.
Pd:
Name or action
What part this person or act played in escalating the Kansas-Nebraska Controversy
Stephen
Douglas
Eli Thayer
Voters from
Missouri
Sack of
Lawrence
Preston Butler
John Brown
Identifications for Ch 14 Section 2 (Dates, locations, definition, significance)
Ostend Manifesto
Border Ruffians
Election of 1856

Name: Date:
Ch 14: From Compromise to Succession, 1850-1861 (pg. 397-423)
Pd:
After reading about the Lincoln-Douglas debates, please summarize the major arguments for both parties, the significance, & outcome of the debate. Please also include which argument you agree with and why.
Lincoln’s Views Douglas’s Views
Significance Significance
Outcome of the debates?
Who do you agree with & why?
Identifications for Ch 14 Section 3 (Dates, locations, definition, significance)
James Buchanan
Lecompton Constitution