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In 1857: Supreme Courts Dred Scott decision permitted slavery in all WEstern territories, invalidating the ________ of 1820, Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1856) In a decision that later was nullified by the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, the Supreme Court held that former slaves did not have standing in federal courts because they lacked U.S. citizenship, even after they were freed.

________, a non- aristocrat from North Carolina, wrote The Impending Crisis of the South in 1857.

________, a Democrat, succeeded Pierce as the President of the United States in the election of 1856.

The ________ is a pro- slavery document.

The 7 seceders met at ________, Alabama in February 1861 and created a government known as the Confederate States of America.

________ developed a plan to secretly invade the South, call upon the slaves to rise, give the slaves weapons, and establish a black free state.In October 1859, he seized the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry.

________, who was white, published Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852 as an attempt to show the North the horrors of slavery.

The ________ was formed by former Whigs and Know- Nothings.

The panic of 1857 was caused by over- speculation in the West and currency inflation due to the ________ gold.

________: fanatical abolitionist who, in May of 1856**,** hacked to death 5 presumed pro- slavery men at Pottawatomie Creek in response to the pro- slavery events in Lawrence.

________, a slave who had lived with his master for 5 years in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory, sued for his freedom on the basis of his long residence on free soil.

________: senator who tried to break the North- South deadlock over westward expansion; proposed the Territory of Nebraska to be sliced into two.

Supreme Courts Dred Scott decision permitted slavery in all WEstern territories, invalidating the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1856) In a decision that later was nullified by the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, the Supreme Court held that former slaves did not have standing in federal courts because they lacked U.S. citizenship, even after they were freed

protection for the unprotected and farms for the farmless

senator who tried to break the North-South deadlock over westward expansion; proposed the Territory of Nebraska to be sliced into two

fanatical abolitionist who, in May of 1856**,** hacked to death 5 presumed pro-slavery men at Pottawatomie Creek in response to the pro-slavery events in Lawrence