week 5

Question 1

anthony burns

Answer 1

• 1854
• escapee
• Boston officials refused to obey fugitive slave law
• fed marshals sent to retrieve him
• one killed
• 50,000 people lined streets throwing rotten food at marshals

Question 2

Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854

Answer 2

-using popular sovereignty to determine if free or slave state

Question 3

Dread Scott 1857

Answer 3

• sued widow of master
• issue of court was jurisdiction to try case
• chief justice roger Taney
• “no rights white man could respect”
• blacks are not citizens
• Missouri compromise unconstitutional

Question 4

Redeemers

Answer 4

• southern elites way to get power

Question 5

Harpers ferry

Answer 5

-John brown tried to take over ferry