Name: _________________________________________ Team: ____________

Worksheet 1

Name: _________________________________________ Team: _____________

Worksheet 1

Directions: This worksheet will be used for several assignments. Please keep this sheet in your textbook. This should be done on a separate sheet of paper, be sure and included your name, team, assigned section and events you are doing. You will be assigned one or two of the following events. For each event you are to:

a. Read the assigned pages in your textbook.
b. Describe the event in complete sentences. In your description be sure to include the who, what, when, and where.
c. Imagine you are a person living in your section, you have just heard the news of the event. You are to write in the perspective of that person. You should explain whether or not the event is helpful or harmful to your sections goals.

Circle One: North South

Be sure to circle the assigned event(s)

Missouri Compromise (424)

Wilmot Proviso (424-425)

Free Soil Party (426)

Compromise of 1850 (428-429)

Fugitive Slave Law (429)

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (430)

Kansas-Nebraska Act (431-432)

Pottowatomic Creek Killings (433)

Dred Scott Decision (433-434)

Lincoln –Douglas Debate (436-437)

Raid on Harpers Ferry (437)

Election of 1860 (439)