"The Dred Scott Decision" vocabulary

Many southern leaders were threatening secession.

• to sue the slave states

• splitting off of the slave states

• to succeed in doing something

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CCSS.L.5.5C

Slavery was banned in Illinois and Wisconsin.

• allowed

• illegal

• not allowed

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CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Eliza appealed the decision because she wasn't happy with it.

• apply to a higher court to keep the decision of a lower court

• apply to a higher court for a reversal of the decision of a lower court.

• ask the court to explain why the case was dismissed

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CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

The Blow family were descendants of Dred Scott's original owner.

• unrelated to a person from a particular ancestor

• people who know relatives of someone

• a person who has descended from a particular ancestor.

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CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

The Dred Scott case had considerable ramifications.

• consequences

• good outcomes

• terrible circumstances

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CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

• freed enslaved people in the northern states

• freed enslaved people in places that were rebelling

• freed enslaved people in the southern states

People were rebelling against the decision.

• resisting authority

• fight with others

• agree with the opposition

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CCSS.L.5.5C