Compromises & Acts
This 1820 agreement balanced free and slave states and barred slavery north of a set latitude.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
the Supreme Court said Blacks were not citizens and Congress couldn’t ban slavery in territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Name two of the four major candidates in the 1860 election.
Who are Lincoln, Douglas, Breckinridge, or Bell? (Any two)
The initial seat of Confederate government before moving to Richmond.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
In Paper 1 Part B, how many sources must you use, and for what purpose?
What is use all four sources with textual evidence to support or challenge the statement?
Part of the 1850 settlement, this law required escaped slaves in free states to be returned to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act (1850)?
In Illinois debates, Lincoln argued the Union couldn’t endure in this split condition.
What is “half slave and half free”?
The Democrats’ inability to unify and an economic downturn helped this party win in 1860.
Who are the Republicans?
Confederates moved their capital to Richmond largely because of these two advantages.
What are iron works and rail connections?
A Level 3 Paper 1 Part B answer balances support and challenge; Level 4 adds these two elements.
What are contextual knowledge and source credibility analysis (origin/audience/purpose)?
This 1854 law let settlers in Kansas and Nebraska decide the status of slavery for themselves.
What is the Kansas–Nebraska Act?
This doctrine held territories could exclude slavery simply by failing to protect it legally.
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
First state to secede from the Union after Lincoln’s election.
What is South Carolina?
Name two border states that stayed in the Union.
What are Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, or Missouri? (Any two)
Best organization for Paper 1 Part B: group sources this way and end with what?
What is group by support/challenge, strongest argument first, and a final judgement?
This plan’s strict requirement—a “50% ironclad oath”—set a high bar for Southern readmission.
What is the Wade–Davis Bill?
This violent Congressional episode showed how inflamed slavery politics had become.
What is the Sumner–Brooks incident?
Southerners claimed this was threatened, justifying their secession.
What is their way of life?
Lincoln’s naval strategy intended to cripple Southern finance by stopping cotton exports and arms imports—what percent of trade did the blockade halt?
What is 90%?
Paper 2 Part A: Level 4 differs from Level 3 by doing this with causes.
What is identifying the most important cause and explaining why?
Name two parts of the 1850 compromise that pleased Southerners (one is the most famous).
What are the stricter Fugitive Slave Law
Stephen Douglas backed the Kansas–Nebraska Act primarily to secure this and rely on popular sovereignty.
What is Southern backing for a transcontinental railroad?
The Civil War began when Confederates did this after Lincoln tried to resupply a fort.
What is firing on Fort Sumter?
Britain’s stance toward the Confederacy: it treated the CSA in this way and accepted the Union blockade.
What is a belligerent—Britain stayed neutral?
For Paper 2 Part B, name the recommended planning technique and the purpose of the third paragraph.
What is writing a PEEL plan in the answer book, and explaining why the first argument is stronger and taking a stance?