Dred Scott Case

            Compromise of 1850

            Kansas-Nebraska Act

            Dred Scott Case

1850:  Debates in Congress/Senate brings about the Compromise of 1850 which has the following provisions:

1.      California admitted as free state.

2.      Territories Utah/New Mexico created without restrictions.

3.      Slave trade abolished in Washington, D.C.

4.      Stricter fugitive slave laws.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin:  Harriet Beecher Stowe.  IT was a novel about the conditions of Eliza and her flight to freedom. Activated abolitionists everywhere.

Comp of 1850 4 southern states threatened to secede from the Union.

Sectionalism

Kansas-Nebraska Act:

Did away with the Missouri Compromise in favor of “Popular Sovereignty.”

Supported by the South

Antislavery northerners organize into the Present Republican Party.

Antislavery supporters move New England. Farmers with Kansas Proslavery forces attack Lawrence in 1856. Antislavery forces led by John Brown attack a pro slave settlement at Pottawatonis Creek.  Bloody Kansas 200 residents of Kansas killed between May 1856 October.

Ballot Boxes stuffed with Missouri (proslavery) residents.

What is Beecher’s Bible? (Rifles)

Dred Scot Case:

             A slave moved about with owner. When the slave moved to Missouri he sued for his freedom. If he lived in a free state then he should be free.

            Supreme Court Decision

1.)    Dred Scot could not sue in federal courts because he was not a Citizen of the U.S. Constitution did not apply to blacks.

2.)    Congress had no right to forbid slavery in the territories.  Territories were open to all settlers once it became a state, then the people could decide on the slavery issue.  Southern supported decision. Republican upset (decided to control government) and by appointed new judge change the Supreme Court.

Lincoln-Douglas Debates:

Stephen Douglas

            Defended the principle of “popular sovereignty”

            Issue not slavery but protection of Democracy.

John Brown

            Deranged individual used 13w 5b in attempt to start a slave revolt by attacking Harper’s Ferry’s. Surrender to U.S. Army led by Robert E. Lee.

            He was thought of as a martyr by northern sympathizers.