What is compromise?
This word means both sides give up something to solve a problem.
What is Compromise
This document says “all men are created equal.”
What is the Declaration of Independence?
As the U.S. expanded west, people argued about whether new states would allow this.
What is slavery?
This law required escaped enslaved people to be returned to their enslavers.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The disagreement between federal power and states’ rights helped cause this war.
What is the Civil War?
If two students both want to use the basketball at recess and decide to take turns, what skill are they showing?
What is teamwork?
(or: What is problem-solving?)
How did slavery conflict with American ideals?
It denied freedom and equality to enslaved people.
The Missouri Compromise tried to keep balance between these two types of states.
What are free states and slave states?
Many people in the North were angry about the Fugitive Slave Act because _______.
It forced them to support slavery.
When Southern states decided to leave the Union, it was called _______.
What is secession?
Why is compromise important in government?
What is to help people with different opinions work together and avoid conflict?
Slavery was used mainly as a labor system in this region
What is the South
As part of the Missouri Compromise, this state entered the Union as a free state to keep balance.
What is Maine?
People who wanted to end slavery were called this.
What are abolitionists / free people
Name one cause of the Civil War.
Slavery, states’ rights, sectionalism, economic differences
Give one example of a compromise from your own life
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Name one reason Southern states defended slavery.
It supported their economy (cotton, farming, plantations).
The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as this type of state.
What is a free state?
States’ rights means that _______.
States believe they have power separate from the federal government.
Some historians debate this question about the Civil War.
Was the war avoidable?
Why might compromise become harder when people believe strongly about a moral issue like slavery?
Because people believe it is right or wrong and don’t want to “give in.”
Explain how slavery was both an economic system and a moral issue.
It made money for plantation owners but many believed it was morally wrong.
Why was keeping a balance of power in Congress so important?
Because it affected laws about slavery and political control.
Why did compromise become increasingly difficult by the 1850s?
Because the country was deeply divided over slavery and trust was breaking down.
Using evidence, explain whether you think the Civil War was avoidable.
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