Read the Event and Consequences Chart
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Read the Event and Consequences chart.
Event / ConsequencesNorthwest Ordinance of 1787 / Fugitive slaves who escaped to the Northwest Territory could be captured and returned to their slave owner.
U.S. Constitution Fugitive Slave Clause - 1789 / Escaping to a free state couldn’t make one free. Fugitive slaves should be returned to owner.
Fugitive Slave Act 1793 / Required citizens to help in catching fugitive slaves. Denied fugitives the right to a trial by jury.
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 / Required citizens to help in catching fugitive slaves. Denied fugitives the right to a trial by jury.
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 / Repealed the Missouri Compromise and changed slave question to popular sovereignty.
Dred Scott Decision - 1857 / African-Americans had no rights as American citizens. Congress didn’t have the right to prohibit slavery.
I. Kansas-Nebraska Act
Answer the questions below using information from the lesson and the chart above.
Question / Answer- Who proposed theKansas-Nebraska Act?
- What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act propose?
- How did this affect the Missouri Compromise?
- How did the North react?
- How did the South react?
II. Fugitive Slave Act and Dred Scott Decision
Answer the questions below using information from the lesson and the chart above.
Question / Answer- Knowledge: Relate the reason slave states were unhappy with the U.S. Constitution Fugitive Slave Clause.
- Comprehension: Explain the reasoning used by the Supreme Court when it denied Dred Scott’s right to file a law suit.
- Application: Relate the response of the Abolitionists to the Dred Scott Decision.
- Analysis: Reorder the six events above with the event that helped the slave states the most as #1 and the event that helped them the least as #6.
- Evaluation: Choose the one event you think was most harmful to the Abolitionist Movement and defend your answer.