Road to the Civil War Review

Dred Scott was famous for ___________.

• being sued by someone else

• suing for his freedom

• being in the military

• being a famous doctor

According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, what would decide whether the territories became free or slave?

• popular sovereignty

• Missouri Compromise

• one would be a slave state, the other a free state

• Rock, Paper, Scissors

Click ALL that apply. Which options were part of the Compromise of 1850?

• California would become a free state

• Strong Fugitive Slave law

• Slave trade banned in D.C.

• New Mexico become a free state

Before the Civil War, The South was:

• Pro-Slavery

• Anti-Slavery

• More industrial than the North

• More populated than North

In the Fugitive Slave Act, it was ILLEGAL for a northerner to let a runaway slave go free

• True

• False

Click ALL that apply. What answers are correct regarding Dred Scott vs. Sandford case?

• Dred Scott was property and lawsuit is invalid

• Dred Scott was freed

• Legally you couldn't stop the spread of slavery in the U.S.

• The northern states called the decision wicked and unfair

Created the Kansas-Nebraska Act hoping to form a Transcontinental Railroad?

• Henry Clay

• Franklin Pierce

• Stephen Douglas

• John Brown