Slavery
What act helped masters catch and return runaway slaves?
Fugitive Slave Act
Who was the "great compromiser?
Henry Clay
Why did Dred Scott sue his master?
for his freedom because he had been taken to live in a free territory
What did many Southerners think about Lincoln?
He was an abolitionists
Who believed that violence is the only way to end slavery?
John Brown
Hero and martyr to the abolitionists in the North
John Brown
Abolished in Washington, D.C.?
the slave trade (buying and selling of slaves)
What did Supreme Court rule?
1. Dred Scott not free
2. Dred Scott not a citizen
3. Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
In November 1860
A northern abolitionists who wrote Uncle Toms Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who was upset because of the Fugitive Slave act?
Northerners (abolitionists)
Admitted as a free state in the Compromise of 1850
California
What amendment reversed the Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. Sanford?
14th Amendment
What was the first state to secede after the election of Lincoln
South Carolina
What did Uncle Tom's Cabin describe?
The evils of slavery
Who was born into slavery and wrote a book about it?
Frederick Douglass
How many main parts were in the Compromise of 1850?
4
What amendment protects the right to own property?
5th Amendment
What did the Southern states who seceded form?
(What did they call themselves?)
Confederate States of America (CSA)
What did Uncle Tom's Cabin persuade many Northerners to do?
Join the abolitionists movement
Ex - slave who helped slaves run north to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
What decided whether to allow slavery in the Utah and New Mexico Territories of the Mexican Cession?
Popular Sovereignty
True or False. In the Dred Scott case the Supreme ruled that even free blacks were not citizens of the U.S.
True
What Principle did the Confederate States of America use to secede from the Union?
States' Rights
Fugitive Slave Act