1820-1860 Review

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1820-1860 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
  without mentioning slavery

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What was popular sovereignty?

• 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  repealed the Missouri Compromise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?

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri
  Compromise.

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What political party was formed in opposition to
the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• The Republican Party

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What broke out in the Kansas Territory?

• Civil war between pro-slavery and anti-slavery
  settlers

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What adjective was used to describe Kansas in the
mid-1850s?

• 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?

• The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

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What power did the Supreme Court use in Dred
Scott v. Sandford?

• 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?

• Remain a slave

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Which section liked the Dred Scott decision, the
North or the South?

• The South

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Which group(s) liked the Dred Scott decision?

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

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Slaveholders