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(TorF) Southerners believed the Constitution gave them the right to retrieve an enslaved person who fled across state lines. True. The book Uncle Tom’s Cabin depicted African Americans as real people imprisoned in dreadful circumstances. True.
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(TorF) • Southerners believed the Constitution gave them the right to retrieve an enslaved person who fled across state lines.
The book Uncle Tom’s Cabin depicted African Americans as real people imprisoned in dreadful circumstances.
Dred Scott was a Missouri slaveholder who had taken an enslaved man to live in free territory before returning with him to missouri.
The Fugitive Slave Act required ordinary citizens to help capture runaways.
After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, why did northerners head for Kansas?
What did Kansas voters do by rejecting the Lecompton Constitution?
Prohibited slavery north of the extended Missouri Compromise line and allow slavery south of it.
Washington, D.C. would be surrounded by Confederate territory.
If passed, it would have prohibited slavery in the territory gained from Mexico.
He accused senators of forcing Kansas into the ranks of slave states.
The Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case ruled what?
John Brown’s intentions in raiding the arsenal at Harpers Ferry was to do what?
arm enslaved people and begin an insurrection against slaveholders.
The Confederate constitution stated that Each state was what?
Was the idea that the citizens of each new territory should be allowed to decide for themselves if they wanted to permit slavery or not.
Due to his role in promoting the Missouri Compromise and solving the nullification crisis, this man was nicknamed “The Great Compromiser.”