Ramping up the anti-slavery rhetoric

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Ramping up the anti-slavery rhetoric Dred Scott
and Lincoln Douglas debates
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Standards, EQ, and EU

• SSUSH9 The student will identify key events,
  issues, and individuals relating to the causes,
  course, and consequences of the Civil War.
• a. Explain the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the failure
  of popular sovereignty, Dred Scott case, and John
  Browns Raid.
• EU - Enduring Understanding Explain how
  settling poignant issue with the refusal to
  compromise can lead to the destructive conflict.
• EQ How was the Dred Scott decision a major
  victory for southern slave owners and how did
  this decision move the country closer to war?

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White board Review

• 1. Who passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
• 2. What did the Kansas Nebraska act propose?
• 3. What 5 things did the compromise of 1850 do?
• 4. Who passed this compromise and what is he
  known as?
• 5. What President supported the Lecompton
  Constitution and why?

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Please do the following

• We will read the following together and answer.
• Read p. 332 and answer the 2 questions.
• Read p 342 and understand the controversy of the
  Dred Scott decision!

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Issues regarding slavery

• Different compromises
• 3/5 compromise
• Mo. Compromise 1820 36-30
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska act Popular sovereignty
• Arguments / Attacks on slavery
• Slave revolts Nat Turner
• Wilmot Proviso first attack through law
• Bleeding Kansas

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What was the status of slavery in 1854?
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Dred Scott decision

• Dred Scott case
• Dred Scott was a slave who was moved to a free
  state with his owner.
• Scott argued since he lived in a free state, he
  should be free and no longer a slave.
• ROGER B. TANEY SUPREME CT. JUSTICE WHO MAKES
  RULING
• Is this case an abuse of Judicial power? Why or
  why not?
• What is the irony of the north debating about
  whether or not to recognize this ruling?

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Dred Scott decision (4 parts)

• 1. Living in a free territory for a period of
  time, does not make one free.
• 2. Slaves are property, therefore they do not
  have the legal right to sue
• 3. African Americans can never be free in
  America and not be citizens
• 4. Congress could never ban slavery in a state
  because doing so would limit a persons property
  rights without due process

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Republican party

• Republican Party (United States) - Wikipedia, the
  free encyclopedia
• History of the republican party
• 1854 Republican party founded in Mich
• The party was founded by anti slavery Whigs and
  Free Soiler party members
• The Republican parties main issues was ending
  slavery!

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Know Nothing Party

• Active from 1854 1856
• This party had stances against immigrants and was
  very anti-Catholicism
• Won some Congressional districts lost two
  presidential campaigns

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Emergence of President Lincoln

• Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 - Wikipedia, the
  free encyclopedia
• Lincoln and Stephen Douglas engage in the first
  organized debates ever!
• The debates were transcribed into books.
• Raises Lincoln to national prominence
• Sees Lincoln LOSE the senate seat he was
  competing for, but established him as an
  important candidate and help to shape his policy
  on slavery
• The Lincoln - Douglas Debates

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Message of the Lincoln Douglas debates

• Lincoln SLAVERY SHOULD NOT EXPANDED TO NEW
  TERRITORIES, HOWEVER SLAVE OWNERS CURRENLTY
  OWNING SLAVES CAN BE LEFT ALONE FOR THE TIME
  BEING.
• DOUGLAS POPULAR SOVERIENGTY IS THE ANSWER

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Lincoln Douglas Debates ACTIVITY

• What is Lincolns / Douglas view towards
  slavery
• How does each man feel slavery laws should be
  applied?
• How do you think the south will take to Lincolns
  view?
• How do you think the south will take to Douglas
  view?

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John Browns raid

• John Brown pops back up in Virginia and attacks
  a USA arsenal to acquire weapons and arm slaves
  for a massive revolt.
• He is taken prisoner and then put on trial and
  hanged.
• Many of his men are killed in the raid.
• The fort is defended by ROBERT E. LEE
• John Brown's Raid

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John Brown