Who was Dred Scott?
A slave who sued for his freedom.
Who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation?
Abraham Lincoln
Was Dred Scott born in free or slave territory?
Slave territory
Did the Emancipation Proclamation free all slaves in the US?
No, only in rebel states.
What were the laws designed to restrict freed slaves rights in the South?
Black Codes or Jim Crow laws
What does "free territory" mean before the civil war?
This was a territory in the US where if slaves made it there, they were no longer considered slaves.
Was the Emancipation Proclamation given before, during or after the Civil War?
During
Who were carpetbaggers?
Northern business men who went to the South after the Civil War to help Freedmen, or sometimes take advantage of them?
"Buchanan was inaugurated on March 4, 1857, and on March 6 Chief Justice Roger Taney issued the decision Buchanan wanted." Who wanted Dred Scott to be kept a slave?
Buchanan
They liked it and sided with the Union
What organization was put together to help newly free slaves to find work and get property in the South?
The Freedmen's Bureau
Who was not included in the 15th amendments?
Women during the Reconstruction Amendments
According to this quote, could Dred Scott ever be considered a citizen? "First, Taney's opinion stated that African Americans, free or slave, could never be citizens of the United States. He maintained that blacks were "beings of an inferior order" who "had not rights which the white man was bound to respect."
No, because he was a person of color.
What did this line of the Emancipation Proclamation mean, "And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence…” ?
What were the Radical Republic?
Republicans that were in favor of abolitionists and wanted the South to pay for their mistakes and be managed.
Which Amendments are the Reconstruction/ Civil War Amendments?
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments