Dredd Scott
Basis for Dredd Scott's lawsuit
Claimed to be a free man due to being in a free state
Political Party of Lincoln
Republican
What does the Fugitive Slave act do?
Allows mercenaries to enter the North to return escaped slaves to their owners
The policy of allowing states to vote on slavery
Popular Sovereignty
Led the raid at Harper's Ferry
John Brown
According to the Constitution, Scott had no right to sue because?
He was not a citizen but property
Lincoln's view of the Dredd Scott decision
Opposed the Supreme Court ruling, in favor of Scott's rights as a citizen
The Fugitive Slave Act leads to the writing of what famous book?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Lincoln is a Senator from the state of?
Illinois
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Granting Scott's freedom would violate his master's ___________ Amendment
5th
Before running for President, Lincoln held this position
Senator
Why would federal commissioners return slaves rather than grant them freedom?
Received more money for returning the slaves
Stephen Douglas accuses Lincoln of being a __________ Republican for supporting the end of slavery
Black
Said "A house divided against itself cannot stand"
Lincoln
Name of slave owning chief Justice of the Supreme Court who heard the case
Roger Taney
Lincoln's opponent in the election of 1860 (Northern Democratic Party)
Stephen Douglas
How does the Constitution view the Fugitive Slave Act
Supports the rights of slave owners
This act repealed the Missouri Compromise
Kansas Nebraska Act
First state to secede and first battle
South Carolina and Fort Sumter
Name of Dredd Scott's master he sued in court
Sandford
According to Lincoln, what did the Founding Fathers believe about men
Created equal with certain inalienable rights
Ohio escaped slave who tried to kill her own children rather than returning to slavery
Margaret Garner
name for the "civil war" fought in Kansas from 1854-58
Bleeding Kansas
US Colonel who capture John Brown
Robert E Lee