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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.

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Bell Ringer

1. Does slavery still exist in the U.S.?
2. What forms, if any, does it exist in?
3. What actions can be taken to combat contemporary
   slavery?

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Essential Question 8 Page 8

• What were the key laws and court cases
  surrounding the issue of slavery?
• Include explanations of the Kansas-Nebraska Act,
  failure of popular sovereignty, Dred Scott, and
  John Browns Raid.

EQ Goes In This Space Law / Court Case
Details

• You may eitherchoose to use theback of Page 8
  forextra / supplementalnotes or you may carry
  your chart over on the back to provide more
  room for info insideyour chart

• Each of the followingslides contains
  infoconcerning laws or legal cases
  surroundingthe issue of slavery
• Use the info providedto complete a chart like
  the one you seehere

Kansas-NebraskaAct
Failure of PopularSovereignty
Dred Scott v. Sanford
John Browns Raid
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Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Signed in 1854, the Act, introduced by Stephen
  Douglas
• - repealed the Missouri Compromise (what was
  that?)
• - created two new territories Kansas and
  Nebraska
• - would allow each territory to decide on the
  slavery issue by using popular sovereignty
• - led to the formation of the Republican Party
  (1854) which supported keeping slavery out of the
  territories
• - led to Bleeding Kansas

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Bleeding KansasFailure of Popular Sovereignty

• Because Kansas would decide about slavery through
  popular sovereignty, both the North (antislavery)
  and the South (pro-slavery) sent thousands of
  people into Kansas to sway the vote
• Tensions between the two groups led to violence
  and the destruction of property, including the
  sacking of Lawrence
• By the end of 1856,
• 200 people had
• been killed in the
• skirmishes
• How did the violence in Kansas
• demonstrate that popular
• sovereignty was a failure?

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Dred Scott

• Scot was taken by his master into the free state
  of Illinois, and then later, back into the slave
  state of Missouri
• With the help of an abolitionist group Scott sued
  for freedom (1847), claiming that because he had
  lived in a free state, he should be free

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Dred Scott

• The case went to the Supreme Court where in 1857,
  the Court ruled against Scott
• Because slaves were not citizens of the U.S.,
  Scott could not sue in Federal Court

• Scott was eventually freed in May 1857, but died
  nine months later

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John Browns Raid

• A abolitionist who used violence against those
  supporting slavery
• In 1859, he and his followers tried to support a
  slave uprising in Virginia by seizing an arsenal
  in Harpers Ferry

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John Browns Raid

• The uprising was quickly put down and after a
  trial, Brown was executed
• Brown was viewed by many in the North as a martyr
  for the anti-slavery movement

• How do you think
• Brown was viewed
• In the South-why?