DL Road to War

According to the Dred Scott decision, no African Americans could bring a lawsuit because

• African Americans were not American citizens

• they could only sue through a white person

• they were born in Africa

• they were all slaves

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• required punishment for escaped slaves

• required northerners to allow slavery above the Ohio River

• required northerners to turn over escaped slaves

• required northerners to assist fugitive slaves

According to the Dred Scott decision, no African Americans could bring a lawsuit because

• African Americans were not American citizens

• they had to obtain the permission of their owners first

• they were not allowed in courts

• they were all slaves

The election of 1860 showed

• how popular Lincoln was in the South

• how deeply divided the nation was over slavery

• that it was necessary to form new political parties

• that the electoral college should be abolished

Lincoln belonged to what political party?

• Republican

• Democratic

• Democratic-Republican

• Federalist

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

• triggered a widespread slave rebellion

• was planned by Frederick Douglass

• made Brown a hero among some abolitionists and some in the North

• was an example of a common abolitionist tactic

A compromise reached in the Compromise of 1850 was

• California would enter as a free state and people in the Utah and New Mexico territories would decide themselves whether to allow slavery

• Maine would enter as a free state and Missouri would come in as a slave state

• Slaves would be allowed to travel with their masters in the free states of the North

• No slaves sales were to be allowed in Richmond, Virginia

Southern states left the Union shortly

• after Harpers Ferry

• after the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin

• after the election of Lincoln as president

• after the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Even though he wasn't on the ballot in the South, Lincoln was elected president because there were more voters in the North than in the South so they had more electoral votes in the Electoral College

• True

• False

In the Supreme Court ruling on Dred Scot, the court ruled all of the following EXCEPT

• Dred Scot was not a citizen so he couldn't bring a law suit

• Since Scott had lived in free territory, he was a free man

• Congress did not have the right to outlaw slavery in any territories

• Slaveowners could bring their slaves into free states because the slaves were their property