Word Splash Use the following words to make

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 Democrat Gen. Winfield Scott Whig John Parker Hale Free Soil

Franklin Pierce 1853 – 1857 Democrat (14 th)

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” Congr. Preston Brooks (D-SC) Sen. Charles Sumner (R-MA)

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 Democrat John C. Frémont Republican Millard Fillmore Whig

James Buchanan 1857 – 1861 Democrat (15 th)

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?

√ Abraham Lincoln Republican Stephen A. Douglas Northern Democrat 20. 1860 Presidential Election John Bell Constitutional Union 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.