This compromise made slavery illegal above the 36 30 line on the map, excluding Missouri.
What was the Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820)?
100
This line's purpose was to set rules where slavery could expand, to outlaw slavery north of the line, and to prevent slavery from expanding throughout the entire country.
What was the Missouri Compromise Line? 36 parallel
100
To gain his freedom from his owner
Why Dred Scott sued (took his case to court)?
100
This Republican won the Election of 1860.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
100
This book made slavery real for Americans that lived in the North when it was published in 1852.
What was Uncle Tom's Cabin?
200
This compromise admitted California as an undivided free state.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
200
The name of one abolitionist leader
Who is ... many correct answers
200
The Dredd Scott Case decision
What is African Americans are not American citizens and cannot sue.
200
This is why the Democrats lost the election
What is they had two candidates
(split the vote)
200
This is the document that freed the slaves
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
300
This compromise admitted Maine as a free state in order to balance slavery (Maine was admitted as a free state and Missouri was added as a slave state).
What was the Missouri Compromise (The Compromise of 1820)?
300
These two words were Stephen Douglas's idea about how to decide if a new state would be a free state or a slave state and means: "the right of the people to vote over slavery".
What was Popular Sovereignty?
300
Which compromise did the Dredd Scott case go against
The Missouri Compromise
300
This is one of the basic goals Lincoln had for the future of the country
What is abolition, preserving the union
300
This was the turning point in the Civil War
What is Gettysburg
400
This compromise was found unconstitutional as part of the Dred Scott Supreme Court case decision.
What was the Missouri Compromise (The Compromise of 1820)?
400
The year of Bleeding Kansas
What was 1854
400
Dredd Scott was set free, yes or no
He would not be freed because African Americans are not Citizens
400
This is the man Licoln chose to head his army (general)
Who is Ulysses Grant
400
This was the document that Lincoln argues must be the "guiding principle" used to save the Union.
What was the Declaration of Independence?
500
This man was the author of both the Compromise of 1820 (The Missouri Compromise) and the Compromise of 1850.
Who was Henry Clay?
500
This was the term given to describe the violent situation in Kansas when pro-slavery forces and abolitionists were trying to persuade the vote over slavery in the Kansas territory.
What was "Bleeding Kansas"?
500
One effect of the Dredd Scott case
Slavery would spread to other territories
500
This would be the man who became the president of the Confederate States
Who is Jefferson Davis
500
This was the battle that took place along the Mississippi River cutting off the Confederate supplies