Road to the Civil War Quiz

What did the Supreme Court decide in the Dred Scott Case?

¿Qué decidió la Corte Suprema en el caso Dred Scott?

• Slaves were not human; only property

• Slaves were to be immediately be set free

• Dred Scott was legally allowed to own a home

• Dred Scott was right and that he won his case

Why did Dred Scott sue?

¿Por qué Dred Scott demandó?

• He said that since his master took him to a free state, he legally was free

• He said that he should be allowed to own his slaves

• He said he wanted to legally divorce his wife

• He said Texas illegally was added to the USA

Why is the Dred Scott decision considered bad?

¿Por qué se considera mala la decisión de Dred Scott?

• It is racist

• It wasn't properly defended

• It violates the 1st amendment

• It allowed the president to be a dictator

Which Abolitionist was a free man who had been kidnapped and sold into slavery for 12 years?

¿Qué abolicionista era un hombre libre que había sido secuestrado y vendido como esclavo durante 12 años?

• Solomon Northup

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Harriet Tubman

• Sorjourner Truth

What was the Underground Railroad?

¿Qué era el Ferrocarril Subterráneo?

• A series of underground tunnels and safe houses

• A secret railroad

• A network of police stations

• Tunnels that slave catchers used

What was the goal of the Abolition Movement?

¿Cuál era el objetivo del Movimiento Abolicionista?

• To free slaves

• To keep people in slavery

• To expand the country out West

• To produce more factories

Match the Abolitionist with what they did

Relaciona a los abolicionistas con lo que hicieron

• Solomon Northup

• Created the Newspaper "The North Star"

• Harriet Jacobs

• Was a prominent conductor on the Underground Railroad

• Frederick Douglass

• Wrote 12 Years a Slave

• Sojourner Truth

• Spoke about Equal rights for all women and all African Americans

• Harriet Tubman

• Wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girls

Which states were added in the Missouri Compromise?

¿Qué estados se agregaron al Compromiso de Misuri?

• Missouri and Maine

• Missouri and Montana

• Maine and Texas

• Texas and Florida

Select 2 things the Fugitive Slave Act did?

Seleccione 2 cosas que hizo la Ley de Esclavos Fugitivos.

• It made it legal for slave catches to hunt down slaves even in free states

• It made it legal to work on the Underground Railroad

• It made it illegal to help a slave escape

• It made it legal for children to work in factories

Match the event to what it was

Relaciona el evento con lo que fue

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• A mini civil war between pro-slavery people and anti-slavery people

• Compromise of 1850

• Made the 36 30 Latitude the barrier for slavery

• Bleeding Kansas

• Allowed California to be a state but also created the Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Splits up a territory into two and has the people vote if slavery should be allowed

• Missouri Compromise

• A book about slavery that angered the south