Dred Scott & The Slavery Debate

What was the ruling of the Missouri court in the Dred Scott case?

• Only Scott should be free.

• The Scotts should be freed, but the decision was later overturned.

• The children of the Scotts would be free.

• Only Scott’s wife should be free.

Where had Dred Scott lived before returning to Missouri?

• Missouri and Maine

• Missouri and Maine

• Kansas and Nebraska

• Illinois and Wisconsin

In the Scott v. Sandford case, why was the argument of Sandford’s widow based on the Fifth Amendment?

• She believed that the Missouri courts had been unfair.

• She believed that the Missouri courts had been unfair.

• She believed that Scott was trying to steal from her.

• She believed that Scott was her late husband’s property.

What did Dred Scott argue in the Scott v. Sandford case?

• He was free because he had lived in free states.

• He was free because he was now a slaveholder

• He should not have been captured because he was a fugitive.

• He should get his property back through due process.

Which best describes the status of slavery during the time of the Dred Scott case?

• Slavery had expanded across the continent, and Northerners were nervous.

• Slavery was banned almost everywhere, and Southerners were nervous.

• Slavery was creating tension between the North and the South.

• Slavery was not an important issue because of the Missouri Compromise.

Which best states how a section of the Missouri Compromise supported Dred Scott’s argument?

• The Missouri Compromise declared that an enslaved person gained his or her freedom upon entering a free state.

• The Missouri Compromise drew a dividing line between slave states and free states.

• The Missouri Compromise declared that when a slave state entered the Union, a free state must enter as well.

• The Missouri Compromise determined the number of free and slave states in the Union.

Who was the chief justice of the United States during the Scott v. Sandford case?

• John Brown

• Roger B. Taney

• James Buchanan

• Millard Fillmore

Which was found to be unconstitutional based on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Scott v. Sandford?

• the Compromise of 1850

• the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• the Fifth Amendment

• the Missouri Compromise

In its ruling on the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court decided that Congress could not ban slavery in

• free states.

• slave states.

• territories.

• free republics.

Which best states how responses to the Scott v. Sandford decision differed in the North and South?

• People in the North agreed with part of the decision, while people in the South agreed with all of it.

• People in the North disagreed with the whole decision, while people in the South only agreed with part of it.

• People in both the North and South disagreed with the whole decision.

• People in the South welcomed the decision, while people in the North feared it.