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Dred Scott and the Slavery Debate Answers

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What did you include in your answer?

A
The case will play a big part in the campaign.
B
The issue will sharply divide the parties.
C
The issue will sharply divide the nation.
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What did this mean for Dred Scott?

A
Scott was not a citizen of the United States.
B
Scott was the property of the federal government.
C
Scott had no right to sue for his freedom in court.
D
Scott was considered the property of the slaveholding family.
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This map shows the

A
Mexican Cession.
B
Missouri Compromise Line.
C
Kansas-Nebraska Act territories.
4

What did the Compromise of 1850 say about slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico?

A
The territories could decide for themselves whether to allow slavery.
B
The territories would all be free soil
C
The territories would all allow slavery.
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The principle is called

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The violence that occurred as a result was nicknamed Fighting✔ BleedingViolentKansas.

A
Fighting
B
✔ Bleeding
C
Violent
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What effect did the Kansas-Nebraska Act have on the two new territories?

A
Territories were allowed to decide whether they would allow slavery.
B
Both territories would become slaveholding territories.
C
Violence broke out between those who wanted free territories and those who didn’t.
8

Where was Scott taken by his slaveholder to live?

A
Virginia and Alabama
B
Illinois and Wisconsin
C
Missouri and Virginia
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What argument did Scott use to sue for his freedom?

A
Living in a free state should make him a free man.
B
The death of his slaveholder should make him free.
C
Slavery should not be allowed in the west.
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Who was Dred Scott?

A
an escaped slave
B
a slave owned by a widow
C
an Army officer
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When did Dred Scott sue for freedom for himself and his family?

A
once he was back in the south
B
after his slaveholder died
C
when he got to Illinois
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The ruling in the Dred Scott case was so significant because it addressed

A
whether slavery was morally right or wrong.
B
whether black people, both enslaved and free, had basic citizenship rights.
C
whether slavery should be allowed in the South.
D
whether territories could outlaw slavery.
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The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who issued the ruling was Roger B. ⇒ Taney.

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In this quotation, who are “they”?

A
Republicans
B
slaveholders
C
African Americans
15

According to the passage, African Americans could not be slaveholdersenslaved people✔ citizens.

A
slaveholders
B
enslaved people
C
✔ citizens
16

What did the court decide when it came to the rights of African Americans?

A
Enslaved African Americans could never be made free.
B
Only free African Americans were citizens.
C
African Americans were not citizens, so they could not sue in federal court.
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What rule did the Missouri Compromise establish in the creation of new states?

A
Future states to the north of a set point would be free.
B
States could decide if they would be free or slave states.
C
All states would be free states.
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Which amendment did the Supreme Court cite in Dred Scott v. Sandford?

A
the Fifth Amendment (protection against losing property without due process)
B
the First Amendment (the right to free speech)
C
the Second Amendment (the right to bear arms)
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What were the effects of the decision? Check all that apply.

A
Abolitionists were angered by the decision and attacked slave owners in Kansas.
B
The decision helped to end the debate over slavery.
C
More people joined the abolitionist cause.
D
The decision strengthened support for the Republican Party.
20

Which statement in the passage best reflects Sumer’s opinion of the Dred Scott decision?

A
“I speak what cannot be denied.”
B
“[The] judgment was sustained by a falsification of history.”
C
“The opinion was more thoroughly abominable than anything in . . . history.”

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