Unrest+Leading+to+the+Civil+War

=Unrest Leading to the Civil War=

From __The American Nation__

 * 15.2**
 * ====Explain how the antislavery movement began and grew.====
 * ====Describe the Underground Railroad.====
 * ====Identify why so many white northerners and southerners opposed abolition.====
 * 16.1**
 * Describe the purpose of the Missouri Compromise.
 * Explain why conflict arose over the issue of slavery in the western territories.
 * Identify why the Free-Soil Party was founded.
 * 16.2**
 * Explain why the slavery debate erupted again in 1850.
 * Describe the impact of the Compromise of 1850.
 * Summarize how Uncle Tom's Cabin affected attitudes toward slavery.
 * 16.3**
 * Identify the goal of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
 * Explain why violence erupted in Kansas and in the Senate.
 * Summarize the impact of the Dred Scott case on the nation.
 * 16.4**
 * Explain why the Republican Party was founded.
 * Explain the rapid emergence of Abraham Lincoln as a Republican leader.
 * Describe the reaction to John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.
 * 16.5**
 * Explain how the election of 1860 reflected sectional division.
 * Describe how the South reacted to the election results.
 * Identify how the Civil War began in 1861.


 * Assessment Task**
 * 1) Some abolitionists favored a gradual end to slavery rather than immediate abolition. In paragraph form list two possible arguments **for** and two possible arguments **against** a gradual end to slavery. Be sure to include the terms, ideas, and details read in class and from our discussions.