Social 7 Ch 16 Towards the Civil War

Person who is running away from authority

• government official
• police officer
• law-abiding citizen
• fugitive

A law passed that made it so voters in each territory would vote on whether to allow slavery

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Fugitive Slave Act

Pro-slavery activities who crossed the Kansas border to vote but did not live in Kansas

• Anti-Slavery Activists
• Border Ruffians
• Jayhawkers
• Free Soilers

Name used in 1856 newspaper stories about events in Lawrence, Kansas surrounding the vote about slavery

• Pro-Slavery
• Border Ruffians
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• "Bleeding Kansas"

Which of the following best describes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

• The slave trade was banned in the nation's capital.
• African Americans who lived in free states were protected from being returned to slavery.
• African Americans suspected of escaping slavery & living in free states were required to return to slavery.
• Popular vote would determine whether African Americans  suspected of crimes should be arrested.

allowed the federal government to arrest any person accused of being a runaway slave, even in free states

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Wilmot Proviso
• The Declaration of Sentiments
• Harper's Ferry

a place to store weapons and military equipment

• arsenal

• depot
• warehouse
• barracks

What state had the worst violence when border ruffians showed up to vote on the issue of slavery?

• Nebraska
• Kansas
• Texas
• Missouri

Who was Dred Scott?

• Dred Scott was a famous abolitionist leader.
• Dred Scott was a Supreme Court Justice.
• Dred Scott was an enslaved African American man who sued for his freedom.
• Dred Scott was a Civil War general.

What did the Supreme Court ruling in Scott v. Sanford mean for slavery in the U.S.?

• The ruling granted citizenship to all African Americans.
• The ruling protects slavery due to the 5th amendment protection of slave owners right to property - slaves being property.

• The ruling abolished slavery in the U.S.
• The ruling had no impact on slavery laws in the U.S.