IA 2 Review

People who were against slavery were called?

• Unionists

• Abolitionists

• Seccessionists

• Confederate

What does the term "Popular Sovereignty" mean?

• Texas is added as a slave state

• The people get to vote for whether they want slavery in new territories and states

• The people get to vote for President and Congress

• The members of Congress have a popularity contest

What was the result of the Dred Scott Case?

• He was sentenced and hung for treason

• He was set free by the Supreme Court

• Scott returned to Minnesota to live his life as a free man

• He was sent back to slavery since the Supreme Court viewed him as property and not a citizen

The region of the United States that had more people, more cities, more railroads and more factories.

This region of the United States has a better climate for farming and agriculture, smaller cities and it allowed slavery

This state was admitted to the Union as a Free State as part of the Compromise of 1850

• Maine

• Minnesota

• California

• Texas

This law was part of the Compromise of 1850 and it legally required people of the North to return escaped enslaved people to the South

• Slave Codes

• Wilmot Proviso

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

This man was born an enslaved person, lived in free territories during his time as an enslaved person and then went to court in an attempt to gain his freedom which the court denied

A law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether or not to allow the institution of slavery in their states

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Popular Soverinty

• Slave Codes

Missouri Compromise means

• Every state becomes a slave state

• The country stays at 22 states

• Every state becomes a free state

• When a free state is admitted, a slave state is also admitted