15.3 Homework

The Kansas-Nebraska Act brought the issue of slavery back into the national spotlight.

• False

• True

In 1854 the ______ party was formed.

• Whig

• Democrat

• Republican

• Free Soil Pary

Who won the Presidential race in 1856?

• James Buchanan

• Ryan Reynolds

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Fremont

Dred Scott was a ______

• Plantation Owner

• Doctor

• Slave

• Law Maker

Dred Scott argued that he had become free when he lived in the free territory.

• True

• False

The Dred Scott case came to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1850

• True

• False

The Supreme Court ruled that Scott was property and did not have a right to sue because he was not a citizen.

• True

• False

One effect of the Dred Scott decision was that...

• It scarred abolitionists.

• Kansas would not become a state.

• Slaves were freed in the U.S.

• More slaves sued federal courts.

Republican Abraham Lincoln and Democrat ___________ were running for U.S. Senate in Illinois.

• John C Calhoun

• John Fremont

• Stephen Douglas

• Jefferson Davis

Abraham Lincoln _____the senate election.

• Lost

• Won