Unit 7: The Union Challenged

Which act nullified the Missouri Compromise and allowed territories to choose whether to allow slavery?

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott Decision

What crisis did Congress resolve by redefining where slavery is permitted in the territories and enacting a stronger fugitive slave law?

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott Decision

Who was elected president of the United States in 1860?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Dred Scott

• General Lee

• General Grant

What did President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation do?

• Freed the slaves in the Confederate states

• Ended the Civil War

• Declared war on the Confederacy

• Abolished slavery in the United States

Where did the last Confederate invasion of the North result in a major battle and a Southern defeat?

• Antietam

• Vicksburg

• Gettysburg

• Appomattox Court House

What did the Fifteenth Amendment ensure?

• No citizen will be denied the right to vote based on race, color, or previous enslavement

• Freedom from slavery

• Right to own property

• Right to a fair trial

This was actually a series of bills passed mainly to address issues related to slavery. The bills provided for slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty in the admission of new states, prohibited the slave trade in the District of Columbia, settled a Texas boundary dispute, and established a stricter fugitive slave act.

• Compromise of 1850
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Monroe Doctrine

In 1854, this act repealed the Missouri Compromise, which had outlawed slavery above the 36º30' latitude in the Louisiana territories, and reopened the national struggle over slavery in the western territories.

• Missouri Compromise Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Oregon Trail Act
• Louisiana Purchase Act

In this ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts. The opinion also stated that Congress had no authority to ban slavery from a Federal territory.

• Marbury v. Madison
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Roe v. Wade
• Dred Scott v. Sandford

The first engagement of the Civil War took place in this location on April 12 and 13, 1861. After 34 hours of fighting, the Union surrendered the fort to the Confederates.

• Fort St. Louis, Missouri

• Jamestown, Virginia

• Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts

• Fort Sumter, South Carolina