The Supreme Court’s ruling in Scott v. Sandford a. was a popular decision throughout the nation.
b. received almost no support in the South.
c. outraged opponents of slavery.
d. was overturned by a presidential veto.

Match each term with its descriptive phrase.
a. Compromise of 1850
b. Freeport Doctrine
c. Henry David Thoreau
d. Roger B. Taney
e. Zachary Taylor
16. won the 1848 presidential election

17. arose from the Lincoln-Douglas debates
18. wrote “Civil Disobedience”
19. wrote the Dred Scott decision
20. Stephen Douglas’s resolution of Henry Clay’s slavery plan