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Section 3: The nation comes apart - Coggle Diagram
Section 3: The nation comes apart
The election of 1856
Democrat
James Buchanan
no connection with Kansas
no abolitionist leaning
conservative
Know-Nothing Party
North Wing
Joined Republican
John C. Fremont
South Wing
Millard Fillmore
Republican
Jonh C. Fremont
'pathfinder of west'
'conqueror of California'
Result: James Buchanan win the election
Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857
Story of Scott
He sued for his freedom to the Supreme Court
Owner's daughter send a message to him to come back to the platation
His owner died
He was taken by his master to Illinois and Minnesota
Result
He remains as slave
he is not citizen of U.S
He has no right to sue
Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional
Slavery is property
The constitution does not have right to deprive property
The Lecompton Constitution
meeting at Lecompton to draw up constitution of Kansas
popular vote to whether constitution with slaver or without slavery
Result: Lecompton Constitutin was adopted with Slavery
majority don't want slavery
It was rejected by free soil vote
Free Soilers refused to vote
Douglas breaks with Buchanan
Buchanan
want Kansas to admitted as slavery state
People in Kansas have free expression
withdraw political patronage from Douglas
Douglas
Lecompton constitution is mockery of popular sovereignity
Kansas became Free state
Lincoln against Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
Lawyer
New Republican party member
unknown
Slave is moral wrong
divided house can't stand
Douglas
both free & slave state can continue to live peacefully
The Lincoln-Douglas debate 1858
Douglas
claimed popular sovereignty
Lincoln
territories be kept free from slavery
he blamed the Dred Scott decision
John Brown's Raid
He want to invade South
freed 30 slavery