Missouri Compromise
What state entered as a slave state in the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri
What state entered as a free state in the Compromise of 1850?
California
Who proposed the Kansas Nebraska Act?
Stephen Douglas
In what state did Dred Scott live FIRST?
Who was elected president in 1860, causing for Southern States to secede?
Abraham Lincoln
What state entered as a free state in the Missouri Compromise?
Maine
What was banned in Washington, DC under the Compromise of 1850?
The slave TRADE
In this Compromise, popular sovereignty was proposed-what is popular sovereignty?
Allowing the people of the territory to vote and decide
In what state did Dred Scott live SECOND, giving him the basis for his lawsuit for freedom?
Illinois
Crittenden proposed to make a change to the Constitution. What word defines a change to the Consitution?
Amendments
What state did Maine break off of?
Massachusetts
True or False: Under the Compromise of 1850, the federal government would choose if slavery was allowed in the new territories
False
Which compromise does Douglas want to abandon when creating the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Missouri Compromise
What was the name of the Justice that determined if Dred Scott was still a slave?
Roger B. Taney
Which Compromise did Crittenden propose to permanently put back in place?
The Missouri Compromise
In the Missouri Compromise, a line was drawn through the United States. Above the line was a ____________ state, below the line was a _____________ state.
free, slave
Which law was passed under the Compromise of 1850, which forced all people in the United States to turn in runaway slaves?
The Fugitive Slave Law
In what year was the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed?
1854
The judge said that Dred Scott was not a citizen. What did he say that enslaved people were?
Property
True or False: Republicans liked this compromise, because Lincoln wanted to keep the Union together.
False
What were the two major problems with the Missouri Compromise?
More territory above the line that could have become free, cut through California
Who proposed the Compromise of 1850?
Henry Clay
The Kansas-Nebraska Act leads to this group of pro-slavery people coming into Kansas, armed and ready to vote on the issue of slavery.
After the Dred Scott decision, could the government legally stop slavery from spreading into the territories?
What is the FULL name of the new nation that South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida created?
The Confederate States of America