Would divide the rest of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories.
What is the effect of the Kansas Nebraska Act?
100
The slave of an army surgeon form St. Louis Missouri.
Who is Dred Scott?
100
Democrats
What was the first party to meet to nominate a candidate?
100
John Brown
Who started the raid on Harper's Ferry?
200
Let officials arrest runaway slaves in areas where slavery was illegal.
What did the fugitive slave act do?
200
In each territory, popular sovereignty would decide the question of slavery.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
200
The nation's founders believed that African Americans "had no rights to which a white man was bound to respect."
What did Taney say?
200
Stephen Douglas and John C. Breckenridge
Who were the democratic nominees?
200
Thought that the only way to end slavery was violence.
Why did John Brown raid Harper's Ferry?
300
Slaveholders and their agents could take suspected fugitive slaves before U.S. commissioners. They would try to prove ownership through documents or through the testimony of witnesses.
How did they take back the slaves?
300
Douglas's plan would remove the Missouri Compromise's restrictions on slavery north of the line.
What is the purpose of Douglas's plan?
300
That African Americans were not citizens under the U.S. Constitution.
What did they decide?
300
Constitutional Union Party
What party did former Whigs make?
300
Eight men
How many people died?
400
Accused fugitives could not testify in their own defense.
What is the laws for slaves?
400
Antislavery northerners were outraged.
What is the effect on the northerners?
400
Did not have the right to file suit in federal court.
What happened with Dred Scott?
400
Lincoln, Seward, Bell
Who were the republican candidates?
400
To free the slaves
Why did they do it?
500
Judges would get $5 for ruling them not guilty, but $10 for ruling them guilty.
What is the reason why slaves were always found guilty?
500
Some called the proposal a "gross violation of a sacred pledge."