Unit 7B Review

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

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

• They did not want to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act

• They considered Dred Scott to be a slave and did not want him to be free.

• The SCOTUS ruled that Dred Scott was a U.S. citizen.

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

• That slavery diminished the national character.
• That African American rights were protected by the Constitution.
• That African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court because they were not citizens
• That slavery should be abolished by executive order

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

• Roger B. Taney.

• John Marshall.

• Neil Gorsuch.

• Antonin Scalia.

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

• Dred Scott was given his freedom

• Slavery was outlawed

• African Americans are not citizens

A political party formed to prevent the spred of slavery

• Free Soil Party
• Republican Party
• Democratic Party 
• Constitutional Party

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

• end fighting between midwestern farmers and native American Indians

• encourage manufacturing in the west

• increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections

• settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories

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

• Missouri Compromise 
• Summer if 1856
• Bleeding Kansas
• Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas

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

• Fugitive Slave Act 
• Bleeding Kansas
• Missouri Compromise 
• Kansas-Nebraska Act 

What is popular sovereignty?

• Where sovereignty is left to the government to decide

• Where sovereignty is left to the people to decide

Which of the following describes "Bleeding Kansas"?

• A violent slave uprising led by Joseph Cinque

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

• The turning point of the Civil War, in which Robert E. Lee's army was routed from Kansas

• The devastation caused by a tornado in Kansas in 1854, which killed 55 people