What did the court rule in Dred Scott vs Sanford?

The Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional

What was the Fugitive Slave Act?

It forced northern states to send slaves back home

What was the attack on Harper's Ferry?

An attack on a federal arsenal to help free slaves

What effect did Uncle Tom's Cabin have on the U.S.?

More people became abolitionists

What was a result of the Compromise of 1850?

California would be a free state

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Unit 6 - Causes of the Civil War

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1
What happened on the Senate floor that has never happened again?
a fight broke out
a law was passed
the President declared war
John Brown was hung for treason
2
What did the court rule in Dred Scott vs Sanford?
The Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional
3/5th compromise became the 4/5 compromise
Dred Scott wasn't property since he escaped up north
Slavery is unconstitutional
3
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
It made all slaves criminals under the law
It made anyone who owned a slave a criminal
It allowed slaves that escaped into the north to be free
It forced northern states to send slaves back home
4
What was the attack on Harper's Ferry?
The first battle of the Civil war
A pro-slavery riot on a boat named Harper
An attack on a federal arsenal to help free slaves
Anarchists attack against slave-owning plantations
5
What effect did Uncle Tom's Cabin have on the U.S.?
It ended the Civil War
More people supported slavery
It led to more slave trading
More people became abolitionists
6
What is Bleeding Kansas?
John Brown was hung for attacking people
Fighting about slave vs free
John Brown's attack on the federal arsenal
a new government in Kansas
7
What was a result of the Compromise of 1850?
It made Missouri a free state
It abolished the fugitive slave law
California would be a free state
It allowed slave auctions in Washington DC
8
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Nat Turner
Dred Scott
Harriet Tubman
9
What did the Missouri Compromise not do?
It made Missouri a free state
It made Maine a free state
It made Missouri a slave state
It banned slavery north of Missouri's border
10
Who was the "conductor" of the Underground Railroad?
John Brown
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Nat Turner
11
What wasn't an effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
It made Kansas a slave state
Allowed popular sovereignty for Kansas
It divided up the Nebraska Territory into two parts
It repealed the Missouri Compromise

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