By Whose Authority?
This regional loyalty goes by this name.
What is sectionalsim?
This issue was just one more thing that drove a wedge between the North and the South.
What was slavery?
The Missouri Compromise only lasted this many years.
What is 30 years?
The passing of this act changed the rules of the Missouri Compromise.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
In 1857, the Supreme Court saw a case of this enslaved African American.
Who was Dred Scott?
Congress added this to imports from Europe.
What is a tariff?
This type of state did not allow slavery.
What is a free state?
The United States gained more land after its war with Mexico. Because it wasn't in the Louisiana Purchase, this state wanted to become a free state.
What is California?
Under the Nebraska-Kansas Act, states were allowed to do this.
What was decide for themselves if they would be a free or slave state?
When he asked for his freedom, the court said this to this slave's pleas.
What is no?
President Andrew Jackson and his Vice President, John C. Calhoun, were split on this issue.
What are state's rights?
This type of state allowed slavery.
What is a slave state?
The Missouri Compromise did not apply to these.
What are lands outside of the Louisiana Purchase?
This state became the center of attention after the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed.
What is Kansas?
Because Dred Scott had lived in these kinds of states, he summed that he should be allowed his freedom.
What are free states?
This man said, "Our Federal Union - It must and shall be preserved."
Who was Andrew Jackson?
This agreement made an invisible line between slave states and free states.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
After California joined as a free state, the rest of the lands were split into these two territories.
What are Utah and New Mexico?
People rushed to Kansas from both sides of the debate to do this.
What is vote to be a free or slave state?
This Judge said that because Scott was a slave, and therefore someone's property, he had "none of the rights and privileges" of an American citizen.
Who was Chief Justice Taney?
This man retorted, "The Union, next to our liberty most dear. May we all remember that it can be preserved only by respecting the rights of the states."
Who was John C. Calhoun?
This was the original disagreement that started a division between the North and the South.
What are import taxes or tariffs?
This man was called "The Great Compromiser."
Who was Henry Clay?
This bitter conflict was a sign of things to come with the war.
What was "Bleeding Kansas?"
Instead of helping slavery, this court case made things worse.
What was the Dred Scott case?