The Crisis Deepens

5.Who were Border Ruffians? ***

Proslavery bands from Missouri who battled the antislavery

4.What did proslavery and antislavery forces do to ensure that Kansas would be on their side?

Some of the people moved to Kansas to fight for their land

How did white southerners, African Americans, white northerners, and abolitionist Frederick Douglas react to the Dred Scott decision? ***

Southerners rejoiced African Americans held meetings Northerners disliked it Fredrick Douglass spoke against it

9.Why did a newspaper call the territory "Bleeding Kansas?

The newspaper called the territory "Bleeding Kansas" because there were fights all over the place and people left and right were getting killed

8.What is guerrilla warfare? ***

A gurrrilla warfare is something that uses hit and run attacks

12. What is a lawsuit?

A legal case brought to settle a dispute between people or groups

15. How did the Supreme Court's decision affect the Missouri Compromise? ***

It affected it by saying it was unconstitutional

11. Did the Dred Scott decision bring more harmony or discord to the nation over the issue of slavery?

It brought discord to the nation

7.Who was John Brown and what did he do? ***

John Brown didn't want slavery so he took his sons and friends and killed 5 proslavery people

3.What state became the testing ground for popular sovereignty? ***

Kansas

6.Why did Kansas have two governments? ***

Kansas had two governments because the free people did not want a person who supports slavery to run the goverment so there was a government for free and people who supported slavery

1.This bill introduced by Senator Stephen Douglas proposed that the Nebraska Territory be divided into two territories Kansas and Nebraska. The settlers living in each territory would settle the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty? ***

Kansas-Nebraska Act

10. What type of violence erupted in the Senate over Kansas?

One of the people in the Senate was beaten up for what he had to say about slavery

13. Who was Dred Scott? ***

Dred Scott was a slave who was with his owner until he died and then filed a lawsuit which he wasn't allowed to.

14.What did the Supreme Court say in the decision Dred Scott v. Sanford? ***

The supreme court said that he wasn't allowed to file a lawsuit because he was a slave and that he would still be considered a slave.

2.What was the northerner's reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska Act? ***

They did not like the law and thought it did not go against the Missouri Compromise