chapter 13 AP

The Supreme Court denied Dred Scott his freedom because

• he didn't live in a free territory long enough
• he didn't fill out the proper paperwork to sue
• they considered slaves property
• his citizenship was not finalized

In the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court ruled

• slaves were not considered to be property
• Scott had lived in a free territory
• that Dred Scott would be free
• the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional

Who was the Republican presidential nominee in the election of 1860

• Stephen Douglass
• Jefferson Davis
• James Buchanan
• Abraham Lincoln

Which political party vowed to stop the expansion of slavery in the new territories 

• Democratic
• Republican
• Constitution Party
• Whig Party

The Kansas Nebraska Act featured a system of settlement in which

• congressional hearings determined the statues of these territories
• executive orders determined the status of these territories
• court decisions determined the status of these territories
• popular sovereignty determined the status of these territories

Amendment offered that detailed the acquisition of territory from Mexico where neither slavery nor servitude will exist

• Lecompton Constitution
• Wilmot Proviso
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Critennden Compromise

Law passed in 1854 creating two territories but leaving the question of slavery open to the local residents

• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Wilmot Proviso
• Lecompton Constitution

The violence that occurred between pro-slavery and antislavery forces after the Kansas Nebraska act led to the term

• Dred Scott Case
• Bleeding Kansas
• Red Kansas
• Panic of 1857

The supreme court case in which a slave demanded his freedom based on his residence in a free state and a free territory was called

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Dred Scott vs Kansas
• Dred Scott vs Missouri
• Dred Scott vs Sanford

What caused the Panic of 1857

• The end of the Crimean war
• Banking crisis 
• less demand for American wheat and cotton
• all of the above