Government policies review

Why was the 36' 30' parallel line only a temporary fix?

• It didn't include land the U.S. received from Mexico.

• It was written to only apply for 30 years.

• It was unconstitutional in the eyes of the southerners.

• It didn't have enough support in Congress from both sides.

Act made it a federal law that all runaway slaves MUST be returned to their owners in the south.

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott Decision

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas - Nebraska Act

Why was Maine created as a free state?

• Balance Congressional power.

• state's rights

• because it was ready to be a state

• to create a free colony for slaves

People who believed slavery was wrong and tried to stop it.

• Secede

• Habeas Corpus

• Abolitionists

• State's rights

Which term best describes the right of the people living in a newly organized territory to decide by vote of their territorial legislature whether or not slavery would be permitted there.

• electoral college

• popular sovereignty

• abolition

• secession

What did the Dred Scott decision declare?

• It declare war between free and slave states

• African Americans can't be citizens and can't sue in federal court.

• It banned the Fugitive Slave Act.

• It gave states the right to disobey federal laws (nullification)

Split the Nebraska Territory into the states of Kansas and Nebraska, where they also got to choose whether to be free or slave states... causing conflict with other states.

• Kansas - Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

Which violent event from 1859 made people question if violence was necessary to end slavery?

• Firing on Fort Sumter

• Bleeding Kansas

• The war with border ruffians

• Raid on Harpers Ferry

California was admitted into the Union, Utah and New Mexico were able to choose (free or slave state), and settled border disputes from war with Mexico.

• Dred Scott Decision

• Kansas - Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850