Paul Jones Mrs. Quinn G.A.L.R.E. December 6, 2010 Unit 3 Lesson 17 Reviewing and Using the Lesson 1. What was the Dred Scott case about? Why was the Supreme Court decision in that case important? The Dred Scot case was a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants, whether or not they were slaves) were not protected by the Constitution and could never be U.S. Citizens. It was important because it was a major step forward for pro-slavery advocates. It contributed to the division between North and South. 2. How did Southern states justify their decision to secede from the Union? How did President Lincoln and other Northerners justify treating secession as an act of rebellion? In order to justify secession as a constitutional remedy, it must be on the principle that the Federal Government is a mere voluntary association of States, to be dissolved at pleasure by any one of the contracting parties. Their act of rebellion was centered around the conflict

over states' rights; southern states believed that the laws the states made were the supreme law of the land and that if the federal government made a law contradicting one in an individual state, that state could ignore it.3. In what ways did President Lincoln assert presidential powers during the Civil War? President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and declared secession an act of rebellion against the Union. 4. On what constitutional grounds did President Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation? Why did the Emancipation Proclamation not free all the slaves in the United States? But the southern states seceded and rebelled, and as a result President Lincoln justified emancipation as a necessary war measure, and he issued the Emancipation Proclamation under the power granted to him by the Constitution as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States. 5. What are the key provisions of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments? Thirteenth abolishes slavery, Fourteenth grants citizenship to everyone born in the US, and Fifteenth guarantees the right to vote regardless of race.