Period 1 Events leading to the Civil War

Using pages 372 - 375 on your Texas History textbook, match the dates to their events.

a

b

c

d

e

f

g

h

i

j

Compromise of 1850

Confederate States of America

Mexican American War

John Browns raid on Harpers Ferry

Dred Scott decision

Abraham Lincoln wins the presidency

Missouri Compromise

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Texas joins the United States

Kansas-Nebraska Act

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Match the event to its description

• Included the Fugitive Slave Act

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Conflict started over disputed territory

• Mexican American War

• Texas became the 28th state in the U.S.

• Compromise of 1850

• Line separating slave and free states

• Annexation of Texas

• Anti-Savery novel

• Missouri Compromise

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Match the events to their description.

• goal was to provoke a slave revolt

• Kansas- Nebraska Act

• Country created by the southern states

• Dred Scott Supreme Court decision

• Sates would vote on the issue of slavery

• Confederate States of America

• Decision: African Americans not citizens

• Election of 1860

• Abraham Lincoln won the presidency

• John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Which outcome best completes this diagram?

d

Popular Sovereignty

American Revolution

Manifest Destiny

Civil War

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8.8B

What territory was ceded by the Mexican government under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

What serious problem in the U.S. led to the Civil War?

• sectionalism
• free enterprise
• patriotism 
• consumerism

Which title best completes the diagram?

• Key Events of the Civil War
• Causes of the Civil War
• Individual Rights during the Civil War
• The Nullification Crisis