1. Bell Work In your notebooks, respond to the prompt: How can differences among students affect the school? What kinds of differences could lead to problems of unity within a country?

2. A Divided Government and a Divided Nation The Compromise of 1850, The Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas and Dred Scott V. Sanford

3. Slavery in the Territories Some law makers wanted slavery banned in the territories of New Mexico, Utah. California would enter the union as a free state.

4. Quick Write If California and the territories outlawed slavery, how would that have disrupted the balance of power in the Congress?

5. The Compromise of 1850 With many southern states threatening succession, a compromise had to be reached. The Compromise of 1850 had things that both Southerners and Northerners liked.

6. What Northerners Liked The Compromise of 1850 admitted California into the country as a free state. The compromise allowed for popular sovereignty. Popular Sovereignty – The right of residents of a territory to vote for or against slavery.

7. What Southerners Liked The Compromise of 1850 called for a stricter fugitive slave law. The South also like the idea of popular sovereignty.

8. The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) This law allowed popular sovereignty on the question of slavery in the territories of Nebraska and Kansas. It also repealed the Missouri Compromise. States north of the Missouri Compromise line could decide to be slave states by voting.

9. Effects of Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act These laws allowed for 1. Slavery to be extended into the territories and 2. For popular sovereignty to decide the answer to the question of slavery.

10. Bell Work Write a complete sentence answering the following question: What were the main effects of the Compromise of 1850 and The Kansas Nebraska Act?

11. Bleeding Kansas Kansas voted to allow or outlaw slavery. Many free-soilers (farmers against slavery) were going to vote. Pro-slavery people came in from Missouri and illegally voted. Violence ensued.

12. Dred Scott V. Sanford Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri. His owner took him to Illinois (a free state), and Wisconsin (a free territory). Scott sued his owner, claiming that being in a free state made him a free man. The Missouri court ruled against Scott, and the case was appealed to the Supreme Court.

13. Questions of the Supreme Court 2 questions of the court: Was Scott a citizen? If not he couldn’t sue in federal court. Was Scott a free man because he travelled to a free state?

14. The Court’s Ruling Dred Scott lacked legal standing because he was not a citizen. Being in a free territory did not make a slave free. The 5 th amendment protects property and slaves were property.

15. Effects of the Ruling This decision declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. Northerners were very upset. Southerners were ecstatic. This ruling guaranteed the extension of slavery.

16. Ticket Out In pairs, list 4 events and explain how they led to greater hostilities between the North and the South.