compromises and Dred Scott

Which compromise permitted Missouri to be added as a slave state as long as Maine was admitted as a free state in order to maintain a balance?

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri compromise of 1820

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

California entered the US as a free state under what compromise?

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

The Fugitive Slave Act/Law was added to what Compromise to make the South happy?

• Missouri Compromise (1820)

• Compromise of 1850

Which entered the US as a free state in the Missouri Compromise (1820)?

• Missouri

• Maine

• California

• Washington DC

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a slave state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Ohio

In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease (make happy) the South?

• It created new taxes for railroad construction.

• It provided an end to the slave trade in Washington, D.C.

• It included a law requiring the return of escaped slaves

• It added California as a slave state

The term means that people in the state would VOTE to make decisions about being a free state or a slave state.

• independent choice

• popular sovereignty

• popular election

This law (act) opened the Kansas and Nebraska territory to being possible slave states, through popular sovereignty.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Bleeding Kansas

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Dred Scott was famous for ___________.

• being sued by someone else

• being a slave who sued for his freedom

• being in the military

• being a famous doctor

Dred Scott _____ his case in the Supreme Court

• won
• lost
• tied
• dropped