Help me please, I don’t understand the wording of this question!

1)Sandford. The court case Dred Scott v. Sandford fueled tensions between the North and the South that eventually led to the American Civil War.

2)These people, called abolitionists because they wanted to abolish or destroy slavery, denounced the practice as horrible and evil.

3)After 1867, an increasing number of southern whites turned to violence in response to the revolutionary changes of Radical Reconstruction. The Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations targeted local Republican leaders, white and Black, and other African Americans who challenged white authority.

4)A special committee worked out another compromise: Congress would have the power to ban the slave trade, but not until 1800. The convention voted to extend the date to 1808. A final major issue involving slavery confronted the delegates. Southern states wanted other states to return escaped slaves.

Explanation:

a variant spelling of the word dote (british)