1820-1860 Review

What were the 3 parts of the Missouri

Compromise?

• 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

What were the key points of the Compromise of

1850?

• 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

What was popular sovereignty?

• The people of a territory would decide whether they wanted slavery

Identify the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

• 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• Since both Kansas and Nebraska were north of the Missouri Compromise line, the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise

What effect did the Kansas-Nebraska Act have on the Missouri Compromise?

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise.

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

Act?

• The Republican Party

What event broke out in the Kansas Territory?

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

What adjective was used to describe Kansas in the

mid-1850s?

•“Bleeding Kansas”

What were the major parts of the Wilmot Proviso?

• Any territory won during the Mexican War could not became slave states

• Did not pass because South maintained majority in the Senate

• Exposed deep political divisions between North and South which would eventually lead to the War

What was the Supreme Court’s

decision in the Dred Scott case?

• 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

What did the Dred Scott decision say about the

Missouri Compromise?

• The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

What power did the Supreme Court use in Dred

Scott v. Sandford?

•The power of judicial review

In Dred Scott v. Sandford did the Supreme Court rule that Scott should

remain a slave or gain his freedom?

•Remain a slave

Which section liked the Dred Scott decision, the

North or the South?

•The South

Which group(s) liked the Dred Scott decision?

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

Slaveholders