US road to civil war

Dred Scott was famous for ___________. 

• being sued by someone else
• suing for his freedom
• being in the military
• being a famous doctor

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Dred Scott took his case to _________. 

• the state court
• the north
• the supreme court
• the south

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Dred Scott became a _______ for the rest of his life. 

• slave
• free man
• doctor
• teacher

What was Dred Scott's reasoning for being free?

• He had lived in free territory
• He deserved it
• He had worked enough to earn his freedom
• His owner said he could

Who was John Brown and what did he hope to start with his newly formed plan?

• John brown, The Kansas abolitionist, formed a plan to provide weapons to slaves to fight a war for freedom.
• He wanted power from the war
• he wanted to unite with the north
• He wanted to be the new Governor of the south

In 1858, Lincoln challenged Stephen Douglas

• in the U.s Senate
• To a series of 7 debates
• for forbid slavery in new states
• to pass the Kansas slave Act

Lincoln benefited from the debates because he

• showed he favored slavery
• wa amusing
• became more popular
• attracted Southern voters

The purpose of the Lincoln-Douglas debates was for Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas to

•  promote their candidacies for the U.S. Senate.
• spread the antislavery movement to the state of Illinois.
• gain supporters for the newly formed Republican Party.
• fight for the rights of African American slaves.

 Formed in 1854 by groups united against the spread of slavery in the West

• Congress
• Supreme Court
• Republican Party
• Whig Party

Chief Justice Roger B. Taney in the Dred Scott decision that Congress could not prohibit someone from taking slaves into a federal territory because

• slaves were property defended by law
• the slave trade was still allowed in every state
• federal territories could not rule against slavery
• slaves were not citizens of the United States.