Fugitive Slave Act
With the Compromise of 1850, was California admitted as a free or slave state?
Free State
T of F:
Nat Turner's Rebellion was the deadliest slave revolt in American History.
True
What two states were granted popular sovereignty under a territory organizing act in 1854?
Kansas and Nebraska
Free-soilers oppose the expansion of slavery while abolitionists want to complete abolish slavery nationwide.
Fugitives
What was Nat Turner's reasoning for organizing a revolt?
He believed God called him to gather people and revolt.
On voting day for Kansas, people from what state poured into Kansas to vote?
What were they voting for?
People from Missouri were voting Kansas to be a slave state
What did Dred Scott and his wife do after their owner, Emerson, passed away?
They tried to buy their freedom from Emerson's wife.
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 required Northerners to return slaves back to their state if caught, why did they often not do it?
They often did not return slaves because there was no penalty.
What happened to Nat Turner and his followers after the revolt?
They were all tried and executed.
True or False:
Anti-slavery men made their own government in Lawrence, Kansas as a response to Kansas becoming a slave state.
True
Popular sovereignty is _________
the people residing in a state vote on whether to be a slave state or free state, and the more popular voter choice wins.
How did the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 ensure Northerners returned slaves?
It imposed a fine on government officials that did not return slaves.
As a result of the revolt, how did the white people retaliate?
They lynched nearly 200 black people.
True or False:
Most of the events in Bleeding Kansas were well-organized and large scale acts of violence.
False.
Most events were small scale and relatively unorganized.
What was Dred Scott's claim for why he and his wife deserved to be free?
They claimed that they were free due to currently living in a free territory where slavery was prohibited.
What was the only thing slave owners had to do in order to receive a slave back to their property that had ran away?
They had to swear under oath.
The problem with this was many people sweared under oath that a person was their slave even if they were not.
How did Nat Turner's rebellion affect all black people in America at the time?
All black people were prohibited from getting an education.
The right to assemble was heavily limited.
What was the event that official ignited Bleeding Kansas?
When pro-slavery people came into Lawerence, Kansas and burned down their abolitionist printing press and destroyed other buildings.
What was the reasoning for Dred Scott's final verdict of NOT being set free even though he was living in a free state.
The Court decided that slaves were personal property and that Congress could not deprive slaveholders of their property.