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Chapter 12-3
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Dred Scott V. Sanford, 1857
case of slave, Dred Scott
Dred Scott lived in Illinois, Minnesota for several years, and he returned to Missouri
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Scott remained a slave he was not a citizen of Missouri, he didn’t have the right to bring suit
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Conclusion
the congress could do nothing (restrict or abolished) about slavery, until states applied
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North outraged, they vowed to overturn the decision of the Supreme Court
Lecompton Constitution
convention met at Lecompton draw up a constitution under which Kansas might come into the Union as a state
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pro-slavery convention thought their constitution might be rejected in a popular vote, so they only allowed popular vote for question ‘with slavery’ or ‘without slavery’ :
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‘without slavery’ = no more slaves brought in, but 200 slaves already in kansas would remained
Result
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newly elected legislature of the Kansas submitted the Lecompton Constitution as a whole to the people
John Brown's Raid 1859
John Brown decided to invade the South through armed the slaves and let them fight for their freedom
In October 1859, he and his followers seized the U.S. arsenal, and attacked planters to forcibly freed 30 slaves
This was ironic because the first person they killed was already-free black
Virginia immediately rose against the invasion, Brown and his followers corpse on the gallows or killed during repress
Effect of the Raid
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no other single event alarmed white S more than Brown’s dead, in their sight Brown was part of a widespread abolitionist who supported by the Black Republican party
Lincoln against Douglas
after Douglas’ second term as senator was end, he seek reelection
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Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858
Douglas
contrasted democracy, Americanism and fairness of his own policy of popular sovereignty
Lincoln
- territories be kept free from slavery
-he blamed the Dred Scott decision
The nation comes apart
- only sectional parties remained in America even churches are divided in sectional differences
The election of 1856
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James Buchanan
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reasons for nomination: he had no connection with Bleeding Kansas, so no abolitionist that would offend South
strengths: he carried all slave state except Maryland in S, therefore many Southerner support him
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Republican party
slogan - ‘free speech, free press, free soil, free men, Fremont’
Nominates John C. Fremont
- pathfinder of the West
- conqueror of California
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