Unit 7B Review

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Why were Northerners upset about the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision?

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They were angered because the decision could extend slavery into western territories.

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What was the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case?

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That African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court because they were not citizens.

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The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the Dred Scott case was

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Roger B. Taney.

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What did the Supreme Court rule (decide) in the Dred Scott case?

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African Americans are not citizens

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A political party formed to prevent the spread of slavery

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Republican Party

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The Missouri Compromise, the compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were all efforts to

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settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories

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This was a mini-Civil War fought in the Kansas territory between pro-slavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers.

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Bleeding Kansas

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This law (act) opened the Kansas and Nebraska territory to being possible slave states

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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What is popular sovereignty?

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Where sovereignty is left to the people to decide

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Which of the following describes "Bleeding Kansas"?

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Violence in Kansas between proslavery and antislavery settlers prior to the Civil War