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Select the TWO groups that the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act led to an immediate struggle betwee
slave owners abolitionist groups
John Brown and his men were captured at Harper's Ferry by:
Colonel Robert E. Lee
Select the FIVE results of the Dred Scott decision.
Dred Scott remained a slave. A slave was ruled to be a non-citizen with no right to sue in federal court. Freeing a slave against his master's wishes was ruled to be a violation of due process of law. The Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional. The U.S. Constitution appeared to support slavery.
The Dred Scott decision made the Missouri Compromise law in new territories.
False
The Lecompton Constitution was the proslavery constitution passed in Kansas.
False
The Lincoln-Douglas debates took place while both men were running for President.
False
Which one of the following statements does not describe the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
It declared that residence in a free territory did not make a slave free.
What was an effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
It repealed the Missouri COmpromise
Select the TWO results of John Brown's raid.
John Brown became an abolitionist martyr. Troops were stationed throughout the South. The South feared a Northern plot to start a slave rebellion.
"John Brown's Body" became a popular song. Most Northerners disapproved of the raid. In the South, Southerners were alarmed. They feared that the Northerners were plotting to stir the slaves to further uprisings.
True
Although Lincoln lost the 1858 election, the Lincoln-Douglas debates won him wide support for the 1860 Presidential election.
True
Dred Scott claimed that he should be a free man because he had been taken into free states while he was a slave.
True
Eight days after he was captured, John Brown was put on trial for treason in Charles Town, Virginia.
True
Ralph Waldo Emerson, a famous writer, claimed that Brown's execution made "the gallows glorious like a cross."
True
The fight in Congress was a bitter one, but Douglas was able to convince enough people in Congress of the value of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill to get it passed. President Franklin Pierce, who supported Douglas and his bill, signed it into law in 1854.
True
The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act led to an immediate struggle between antislavery and proslavery groups for the control of Kansas.
True
This decision came on March 6, 1857, in the famous case of Dred Scott v. Sandford.
True
What best defines due process of law?
the course of legal proceedings carried out regularly in accordance with established rule
What event resulted in the use of the expression, "Bleeding Kansas?"
the near destruction of the free-soiler town of Lawrence, Kansas
Why did John Brown seize the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry?
to begin a slave rebellion in Virginia
What was the principal purpose of the Republican Party?
to prevent the spread of slavery