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Read the Event and Consequences chart.

Event / Consequences
Northwest 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Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 / Repealed the Missouri Compromise and changed slave question to popular sovereignty.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
  1. Who proposed theKansas-Nebraska Act?

  1. What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act propose?

  1. How did this affect the Missouri Compromise?

  1. How did the North react?

  1. 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
  1. Knowledge: Relate the reason slave states were unhappy with the U.S. Constitution Fugitive Slave Clause.

  1. Comprehension: Explain the reasoning used by the Supreme Court when it denied Dred Scott’s right to file a law suit.

  1. Application: Relate the response of the Abolitionists to the Dred Scott Decision.

  1. 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.

  1. Evaluation: Choose the one event you think was most harmful to the Abolitionist Movement and defend your answer.