section 3 The nation comes apart (Yun muhyun)
The election of 1856
nominating candidates
Democratic party
Republican party
Know-Nothing party
James Buchanan (cause)
There was no connection to Bleeding Kansas
no abolitionist who would offend the south
John C. Fremont
slogun
‘free speech, free press, free soil, free men, Fremont’
Slavery issue splits the country
campaign became not national but sectional
Fremont and Fillmore were Buchanan's opponents
finally
The election was won by James Buchanan
Dred Scott v. Sanford,1857.
Dred Scott lived in Illinois
The Missourian returned to his home state
His freedom was sought through a lawsuit
Supreme Court decision
As a non-citizen of Missouri, he could not file a lawsuit
He remained a slave despite his travels
opinion of Roger B. Taney
‘was Scott a citizen?
‘was he free?
Citizenship was not possible for blacks
Only white men made the constitution
answer is no
A slave was his owner's property.
Because Congress lacked the power to intervene in slavery
therefore all states became slave states.
conclusion
The Supreme Court exacerbated the nation's divisions
pushed the country closer to conflict.
The Lecompton constitution
conference met at Lecompton to draw up
charter underneath which Kansas may come into the Union as a state
most delegates liked slavery
Free-Soilers refused to take phase in the election of delegates
result
Lecompton Constitution was adopted with slavery
The majority of Kansas people did not want slavery.
Douglas breaks with Buchanan
Stephen A. Douglas
claimed popular sovereignty
No government had the right to force slavery or freedom on anyone
Constitute a new constitution in Kansas, and put it to a public vote
result
From the beginning of the Civil War until the end of the war
Kansas remained a territory
Lincoln against Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
It was he who nominated Republican candidate in Illinois
Nationally unknown
House will cease to divide,
Union will not be dissolved
Douglas vs Lincoln
they have different idea
Slavery is morally wrong
Slave and free states could coexist in peace
Douglas
Lincoln
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Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858
Lincoln
Douglas claimed popular sovereignty
All territories must be free of slavery due to Dred Scott
MAIN point
Lincoln asked
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'whether the people of a territory could lawfully exclude slavery before they had become a state’
John Brown’s raid, Harpers Ferry, 1859
John Brown
To invade the South, he armed the slaves
let them fight for their freedom
Virginia immediately rose against the invasion
Brown and his followers
corpse on the gallows or killed during repress
effect
Brown's death inspires a thousand people
stake their lives in the fight against slavery.
to
stake their lives in the fight against slavery.