18201860 SOL Review

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1820-1860 SOL Review
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What were the 3 parts of the Missouri Compromise?
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• Missouri became a slave state
• Maine became a free state
• Louisiana Territory was divided at the 36 degree,
  30 minute parallel north of the line must be
  free territory south of the line could be slave
  territory

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What were the key points of the Compromise of
1850?
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• California became a free state
• Stronger fugitive slave law
• Abolished the slave trade, but not slavery
  itself, in the District of Columbia
• Created the Utah and New Mexico territories
• Popular sovereignty would decide slavery in Utah
  and New Mexico

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What was popular sovereignty?
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The people of a territory would decide whether
they wanted slavery
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Identify the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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• Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
• Said popular sovereignty would decide slavery in
  both Kansas and Nebraska
• Since both Kansas and Nebraska were north of the
  Missouri Compromise line, the Kansas-Nebraska Act
  repealed the Missouri Compromise

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What effect did the Kansas-Nebraska Act have on
the Missouri Compromise?
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri
Compromise.
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What political party was formed in opposition to
the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
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The Republican Party
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What broke out in the Kansas Territory?
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Civil war between pro-slavery and anti-slavery
settlers
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What adjective was used to describe Kansas in the
mid-1850s?
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Bleeding Kansas
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What was the Supreme Courts decision in the Dred
Scott case?
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• Since Dred Scott was a slave, he could not sue in
  federal court.
• African-Americans were not citizens of the United
  States.
• Since Congress had no power to prohibit slavery
  in the territories, the Missouri Compromise was
  unconstitutional.

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What did the Dred Scott decision say about the
Missouri Compromise?
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The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
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What power did the Supreme Court use in Dred
Scott v. Sandford?
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The power of judicial review
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In Dred Scott v. Sandford did the Supreme Court
rule that Scott should remain a slave or gain his
freedom?
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Remain a slave
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Which section liked the Dred Scott decision, the
North or the South?
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The South
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Which group(s) liked the Dred Scott decision?

• Abolitionists?
• Republicans?
• Slaves?
• Slaveholders?

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Slaveholders