Political Parties and Dred Scott Case

Match the word, definition, and image: Founding of the Republican Party. Critics of the Kansas-Nebraska Act formed a new political party called the Republican Party. They said slavery can exist in the south, but it shouldn’t be extended into new territory.

• Republican Party

• Critics of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• new political party

• slavery can exist in the south, but it shouldn’t be extended into new territory

• slavery

• Founding of the Republican Party

Dred Scott sued for his freedom because he visited land that was free. The court said: 1. Dred Scott couldn’t sue because he was not a citizen but rather property. 2. Congress has no right to take away someone’s property. 3. Congress can’t prohibit slavery in any new territory since it wasn’t illegal in the U.S.

• Dred Scott couldn’t sue because he was not a citizen but rather property.

• Congress has no right to take away someone’s property.

• Congress can’t prohibit slavery in any new territory since it wasn’t illegal in the U.S.

The court decision helped expand slavery. 1. Missouri Compromise of 1820 is ruled unconstitutional. 2. Opened up territory previously determined as free for possibility of slavery. 3. It upset the abolitionists and encouraged further support for the cause.

• Missouri Compromise of 1820 is ruled unconstitutional.

• Opened up territory previously determined as free for possibility of slavery.

• It upset the abolitionists and encouraged further support for the cause.

This court case established that slavery couldn't be prohibited because slaves were property and not citizens.

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Roe v. Wade

This political agreement that eased sectional tensions was ruled unconstitutional by the Dred Scott case.

• A. Missouri Compromise

• B. Compromise of 1850

• C. Kansas-Nebraska Act

• D. Fugitive Slave Act

This legislation allowed people to use popular sovereignty to decide if a western territory would be free or slave.

• A. Missouri Compromise

• B. Compromise of 1850

• C. Fugitive Slave Act

• D. Kansas-Nebraska Act

Which act allowed slave catchers to retrieve escaped slaves living in the North?

• A. Missouri Compromise

• B. Compromise of 1850

• C. Fugitive Slave Act

• D. Kansas-Nebraska Act

Which act replaced the Missouri Compromise?

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

_______ This legislation stated that territory above 36°30’ line would be free and below slave territory.

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

_______ This compromise led to the admission of California as a free state & the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Dred Scott Decision