An act that made it a federal crime to help slaves runaway.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
100
John C. Calhoun and because he thought letting California enter the Union as a free state would destroy the balance between the two sections of the country.
Who argued Clay about letting California enter the Union as a free state and why?
100
Pottawatomie Massacre
Where was the massacre where five pro-slavery men were killed?
100
Gave Dred Scott a decision to free himself or to free himself and other slaves.
What did Dred Scott's master's wife do?
100
The Democrats
Who was the first party to meet to nominate a presidential candidate in 1860?
200
They received $5 for their services.
How much money did the commissioners who rejected a slaveholder's claim receive?
200
The slave trade in the nation's capital and produced a new fugitive slave law.
What did the compromise outlaw?
200
Pro-slavery and antislavery groups
Who was fighting in Bleeding Kansas?
200
Three opinions made by Dred Scott saying that African Americans have no rights, the Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional and that Congress does not have the right to ban slavery in any federal territory.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
200
They could not agree on a candidate
What happened with the Northern and Southern members of the party?
300
The act even let officials arrest runaway slaves in these areas.
What happened in areas where slavery was illegal?
300
California
What state entered the union as a free state in this compromise?
300
A crime to question anyone's rights to hold slaves and that anyone caught helping a fugitive slave could be punished by death.
What were two pro-slavery laws?
300
Dred Scott
Who made the decision?
300
The north chose Senator Stephen Douglas. The south chose current vice president, John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky.
As a result of the north and south not agreeing, the split into two. Who did the north and south choose?
400
Slave holders and their agents could take suspected fugitive slaves before U.S commissioners.
What happened under the new law?
400
In two territories; Utah and New Mexico.
How was the Mexican Cession divided?
400
Kansas had two governments and an angry population divided into two armed camps.
What did Kansas have in early 1856?
400
A slave of an army surgeon from St.Louis, Missouri
Who is Dred Scott?
400
Slavery in the territories
What did Breckingridge strongly support?
500
You would face six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.
What happens if you help a runaway slave?
500
Texas in New Mexico.
Who agreed to give up their land claims and where?
500
Antislavery Kansans formed their own legislature 25 miles away in Topeka.
What did antislavery Kansans form and where?
500
The majority opinion
What did he write in the Dred Scott Decision?
500
A republican victory in the election would give states the right to break up the Union.