Engage your AP U.S. History students in authentic historical thinking with this ready-to-go inquiry worksheet centered on the 1854 Anthony Burns case. Students closely read a primary source excerpt from Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns (pp. 7–8, “The Public Meeting”) and trace explicit and implicit references to major antebellum developments: the Free Soil Party, Abolitionism, the Compromise of 1850, the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, and the Kansas–Nebraska Act. They then craft a linkag