Election of 1860 and the Dred Scott Decision Flashcards
(21 cards)
The new Fugitive slave law required all white people to do what?
Turn in slaves to authorities.
A stricter Fugitive Slave Law was part of:
The Compromise of 1850.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act gave slavery the opportunity to be legal in places that it had been illegal under the Missouri Compromise, allowing citizens to decide on a free or slave state in a process called…
Popular Sovereignty.
The Republican Party was originally made up of all of the following groups EXCEPT…
Northern anti-slavery Whigs
Know-Nothings
Plantation Owners
Former Free-Soilers
Plantation Owners
Which statement about Bleeding Kansas is NOT true?
Border ruffians from Missouri and people from free states came to set up rival governments.
Pro- and anti-slavery supporters attacked each other and committed acts of violence.
Kansas eventually entered the Union as a slave state and seceded once the Civil War began.
Kansas passed two constitutions, one supporting slavery and the other opposing slavery.
Kansas eventually entered the Union as a slave state and seceded once the Civil War began.
The Dred Scott decision basically said that black people were considered what?
Property
Who led the raid on Harper’s Ferry in an attempt to steal weapons and give them to slaves.
John Brown.
The states that broke away from the Union and created their own confederacy called?
The Confederate States of America.
The Civil War began in 1861 when southern troops attacked_____.
Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
What made the Civil War inevitable?
Slavery
True or False: According to U.S. law, you are a citizen if you are born in the country.
True
In what state did Dred Scott live at the time of his lawsuit?
Missouri
What was Dred Scott’s main point in his law suit? Why did he believe he should be free?
He was free because he had lived in a free territory.
True or False: Dred Scott originally won his lawsuit and his freedom.
True
What did the Missouri Compromise do?
Designated part of the Louisiana Purchase as free, and part of it as slave.
What justification did Chief Justice Roger Taney use to defend the Supreme Court’s decision?
Enslaved people are not citizens
Why did the Dred Scott decision anger abolitionists?
It made abolitionists feel like they would have no say about where slavery would exist in the country
What do some historians consider to be the worst Supreme Court decision of all time?
Dred Scott v. Sandford
What did the Supreme Court decision declaring Black people non-citizens mean that Black people could not legally do?
They couldn’t vote.
It set African-Americans as an underclass.
African-Americans couldn’t defend themselves.
All of the above
All of the above
What did immigrants have to start doing because of the Scott v Sanford case?
proving they were “white” enough
Why was the Scott v Sanford case significant?
made it so African Americans in the US were not citizens
