Use the Primary and Secondary Resources below for each event/issue leading to the Civil War
3/5ths Compromise (1787):
Primary Source: Constitution, Article 1, Section 2, Number 3 (see your book on pg 233)
Textbook pages: 204-205
The Missouri Compromise (1820):
Newspaper Editorials: Get document from Mr. Wells
Textbook pages: 323-24, 436-37, 447, 624
The Compromise of 1850:
Political Map: Early 1850s
Textbook pages: 434, 439
The Fugitive Slave Act (1950):
Primary Document - See Thomas Jefferson document and Reward for Runaway Slave
Textbook pages: 441-42
The Underground Railroad:
Map of the Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania
Click here for Slave Narratives about escaping to freedom
Textbook pages: 406, 418 - 421 (abolitionists); 422 - 424 (Underground Railroad), 429, 442
The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854):
Political Cartoon (Primary Sources): "Little Stephen A. Trying to Climb a Very High Chair", "Forcing Slavery Down the Throats of a Freesoiler"
Textbook pages: 442-443, "Bleeding Kansas" on 444
Dred Scott Surpreme Court Case (1857):
Editorials from Newspapers of the time, Frank Leslie's Newspaper
Textbook pages: 446-7, 505, 624
John Brown / Harper's Ferry, VA (1859):
John Brown's Last Speech (Primary Sources)
Political Cartoon (Primary Sources): On This Day..., "Premature Movement" - from class
Textbook pages: 444 (compare picture to cartoon) and 448