Fill in the blank: The Supreme Court heard a case about a slave who had lived in a free state. It ruled that slaves were property and were not citizens of the U.S., therefore were not allowed to bring the case before the Supreme Court. This is known as: ________________.
The Civil War Quiz

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Dred Scott Decision
Missouri Compromise
Fugitive Slave Law
Kansas-Nebraska Act
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The _______________admitted California as a free state and outlawed the slave trade, but not slavery itself in Washington, D.C.
Fugitive Slave Law
Dred Scott Decision
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Kansas and Nebraska were allowed to vote to decide whether or not they would become slave or free states in the __________.
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Annexation of Texas
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The name of the decision that allowed Texas to be admitted to the Union as a slave state and caused the Mexican-American War was the______________.
Dred Scott Decision
Emancipation Proclamation
Annexation of Texas
Kansas-Nebraska Act
5.
DROPDOWN QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
You have the feeling of (a) if you feel that your region of the country is more important than the country as a whole.
6.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Match the following
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Escaped slave and vocal abolitionist
Harriet Tubman
Conductor on the Underground Railroad
Frederick Douglass
7.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Match the following
Female African American abolitionist
William Lloyd Garrison
Led the raid on Harper's Ferry
Sojourner Truth
Publisher of abolitionist newspaper
John Brown
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