College Prep: Mapping

Compromises, Day 3
Ms. Walsh & Mr. Gomes
Early US History
Thursday April 30, 2015

Activator #4 (CP)
Beneath YESTERDAYS activator:

How effective was the

Compromise of 1850? Was it a
long- or short-term solution?

Announcements
After School:
Tomorrow: by appointment

CP: Unit 5 Essays

Todays Objective
IWBAT explain in writing how the balance of power
between slave and free states changed after the KansasNebraska Act by completing a map and guiding questions.
HOW Well Do This:
1. Notes: the Kansas-Nebraska Act
2. Short video explanation
3. Label and color a map of the Kansas-Nebraska Act to see

it visually

4. Use that map to answer a set of analysis questions

What Was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

The K-N Act was a law passed in 1854

that decided that NEW TERRITORIES
should be allowed to VOTE on whether
they were free or slave zones instead of the
previously-decided Missouri Compromise
line.

What Problems Did the US Face in the 1850s?

In 1854, Senator STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS of
Illinois drafted a bill to organize territorial
governments for the Nebraska TERRITORY. He
proposed that it be divided into two territories
KANSAS and NEBRASKA.
The problem once again came up about whether
these new territories should be SLAVE or FREE.

Technically, they were both areas ABOVE the 3630

line from the Missouri Compromise. But many
people living there WANTED SLAVERY in this
new cotton-friendly land.

What Did the Kansas-Nebraska Act Decide?

The K-N Act decided that the decision about

whether to allow slavery in each of the territories
be settled by POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY--a
system where the RESIDENTS VOTE to decide
an issue.

This law basically GOT RID OF the Missouri

Compromise by allowing people to vote for slavery
in territories where the Missouri Compromise had
BANNED it.
SOUTHERNERS applauded the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise and supported the bill.
Even though the bill angered opponents of
slavery, it PASSED.

How Effective Was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

NOT VERY.
Because the decision would be left up to a vote,
pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters
DESCENDED on Kansas and all VOTED in the
election even though they werent technically
residents of the state.
This made people mad. Pro-Slavery and AntiSlavery groups LITERALLY FOUGHT in the
streets of Kansas turning it into a
BATTLEGROUND. This became known as
BLEEDING KANSAS.

Map Work: Kansas-Nebraska Act

1. Map Work: On the inside of your booklet,

Turn to Pg#448in the dark blue textbook (p 464 in the gold
textbook)
Write the TITLE: The Compromise of 1850 at the TOP of
your map
LABEL the states shown on the map (abbreviations are fine)
Use a different COLOR for each of the following (put the color
next to the category)
Free States
Free territories
Slave States
Slave terriitories
Territory OPENED to slavery by the K-N Act

2. Use your map to answer the analysis questions in the booklet

The So What? Of This Lesson

For the next 3 days, well be focusing on the question Did
compromises over slavery in the West HELP or HURT relations
between North and South?
Are there issues today that seem impossible to solve? (and yet we
keep trying anyway)
Race

Poverty
Religious differences (i.e., in relation to same-sex marriage,
abortion, etc.)
Immigration
What could ultimately happen if those types of issues cannot be
solved?

Honors: Skill BuildingMap

Analysis
Ms. Walsh and Mr. Gomes
Early US History
April 30, 2015

Activator #4 (Honors)
How effective was the KansasNebraska Act in solving
differences between the North
and South? Was it a long- or
short-term solution? Explain.

Announcements
After School:
Tomorrow: by appointment

CP: Unit 5 Essays

Todays Objective
IWBAT analyze maps in writing to use inferences to
answer a historical question in 3-5 sentences with the aid
of a graphic organizer.
What this means:
1. Analyzing our maps from this week with an I See/It

Means chart

2. Using that evidence and analysis to answer the

question, How did compromises over slavery

CHANGE the relationship between the North and
the South?

Analyzing Maps to Develop an Argument

1. Complete the rest of your I See/It Means
2. Use the I See/It Means to defend your answer to the

question, How did compromises over slavery CHANGE

the relationship between the North and the South?
3. When you are finished with your graphic organizer, get it

checked off by Ms. Walsh for classwork credit

4. Next, start tonights HWopen-note quiz at the start of

class tomorrow!