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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| DRED SCOTT | Enslaved African American who filed suit for his freedom stating that his time living in a free state mad him a free man; the Supreme Court ruling known as the Dred Scott decision upheld slavery |
| Anthony burns | Enslaved African American, he ran away and was arrested in Boston. His arrest became the center of violent protests by northern opponents of the Fugitive Slave Act. |
| Roger b Taney | U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, he wrote the majority opinion in the Dred Scott decision, stating that African Americans were not citizens and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. |
| FRANKLIN PIERCE | Democratic candidate for president in 1852 and the 14th president of the United States, he made the Gadsden Purchase, which opened the Southwest for settlement, and passed the unpopular Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| ABRAHAM LINCOLN | Sixteenth president of the United States, he promoted equal rights for African Americans in the famed Lincoln -Douglas debates. He was assassinated in 1865 |
| KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT | a law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery |
| Popular Sovereignty | the idea that political authority belongs to the people |
| JOHN C. FREMONT | American explorer, army officer, and politician, he was chosen as the first Republican candidate for president. He was against the spread of slavery, and he was rejected by all but the free states as a “single issue” candidate in the election of 1856 |