USHC 3 Quiz Fall 2022

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

As a result of the Supreme Court ruling in the Dred Scott case, slaveholders had the legal right to take enslaved persons into

• Missouri

• any territory

• Kansas and Nebraska

• western territories

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Angelina Grimke

• William Lloyd Garrison

The creator of the first abolition newspaper was

• Jesse Thomas
• William Lloyd Garrison
• James Tallmadge
• Abraham Lincoln

The Emancipation Proclamation

• made slavery legal

• began slavery

• ended slavery in the Confederate states

• ended slavery only in the North

1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican

• Wilmot Proviso

• Bleeding Kansas

• Free soil

The idea that political power belongs to the people is called_____________________, and allows the people to make decisions about who will represent them in government and what laws will be established.

• Popular Sovereignty

• Checks and Balances

• Federalism

• Separation of Powers

Missouri entered the Union as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas Nebraska Act

In the Dred Scott Decision,

• The Supreme Court ruled that African Americans were property, not citizens

• The Supreme Court ruled that any person born in the US is a citizen

• The Supreme Court ruled that African Americans are only slaves if they live in the South

What event caused the first southern state to secede?

• John Brown’s raid

• Lincoln’s election

• Bleeding Kansas

• Nat Turner’s rebellion