Transcript Dred Scott Case

Compromises, Dred Scott, Elections,
Succession, Confederacy
Henry Clay
• Known as the Great
Compromiser
• Wrote the Missouri
Compromise and the
Compromise of 1850
• Wanted America to
solve their differences
without _ _ _
New Compromises
– Free state: didn’t
want slavery.
– Slave state:
wanted slavery
– Everything was
EVEN until
Missouri became a
state.
The Missouri Question - Northerners were against adding Missouri to
the union as a slave state because it would disrupt the balance of power
in Congress between slave and free states.
Balance of Free
and Slave States
(1819)
Illinois (1818)
Indiana (1816)
Alabama (1819)
Mississippi (1817)
Ohio (1803)
Vermont (1791)
Rhode Island
Louisiana (1812)
Tennessee (1796)
Kentucky (1792)
New York
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Maryland
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Free States
Georgia
Delaware
Slave States
Balance of Free and Slave States (1821)
Missouri
Compromise
• Missouri was
admitted to the
union as a slave
state, and Maine was
admitted as a free
state.
Maine (1820)
Illinois (1818)
Indiana (1816)
Ohio (1803)
Missouri (1821)
Alabama (1819)
Mississippi (1817)
Louisiana (1812)
Vermont (1791)
Rhode Island
New York
New Hampshire
Tennessee (1796)
Kentucky (1792)
Virginia
North Carolina
Massachusetts
Connecticut
South Carolina
Maryland
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Free States
Georgia
Delaware
Slave States
• An imaginary line was drawn across the southern border of
Missouri at the latitude 36 30'N…..Except Missouri…
36 , 30’
Free
States
Wisconsin (1848)
Iowa (1846)
Michigan (1837)
Maine (1820)
Texas (1845)
Florida (1845)
Arkansas (1836)
Missouri (1821)
Illinois (1818)
Alabama (1819)
Indiana (1816)
Mississippi (1817)
Ohio (1803)
Louisiana (1812)
Vermont (1791)
Tennessee (1796)
Rhode Island
Kentucky (1792)
New York
Virginia
New Hampshire
North Carolina
Massachusetts
South Carolina
Connecticut
Maryland
New Jersey
Georgia
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Slave
States
Results of the Missouri Compromise
of 1820
• Kept the peace for nearly 30 years
• Six new states joined the Union – 3 slave and 3
free….still equal in number
• AND THEN along came…California
Teach your neighbor what the
Missouri Compromise did.
Henry Clay-The Stress of Slavery
Is Having an Effect on Him
The Compromise of 1850
• Henry Clay to the rescue AGAIN
• California = Free
• New Mexico and Utah territories= people
would decide by voting
“I’m Here to
Save the
Day!!”
Free
States
California (1850)
Wisconsin (1848)
Iowa (1846)
Michigan (1837)
Maine (1820)
NM and UT Territories-???
Illinois (1818)
Alabama (1819)
Indiana (1816)
Mississippi (1817)
Ohio (1803)
Louisiana (1812)
Vermont (1791)
Tennessee (1796)
Rhode Island
Kentucky (1792)
New York
Virginia
New Hampshire
North Carolina
Massachusetts
South Carolina
Connecticut
Maryland
New Jersey
Georgia
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Texas (1845)
Florida (1845)
Arkansas (1836)
Missouri (1821)
Slave
States
•CA=Free
•UT/NM Territories-?Vote?
•Fugitive Slave Law
The Fugitive Slave Law
• All Americans, by law, were
required to help catch
runaway slaves.
• You could be fined and/or
imprisoned for helping a
runaway slave.
•How did this law make
abolitionist feel?
Fredrick Douglass
• A former slave
• He gave many speeches
and wrote about the
horrors of____________.
• He was the spokesman
for the antislavery
movement.
• North Star
• Narrative Life of
Fredrick Douglass
Teach your neighbor about what
the Compromise of 1850 did.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The people of each territory voted on whether or not to allow
slavery.
“Bleeding Kansas”
Before the vote on slavery:
• Northerners crossed the
border to keep KS a free
state.
• Southerners crossed the
border to make KS a slave
state.
• Both sides claimed
victory on the vote!
* In 1856, an abolitionist named John Brown murdered five
proslavery men.
* Over 200
people died
in the
fighting that
followed.
Teach your neighbor what the
Kansas Nebraska Act did.
Dred Scott Decision :The Worst Decision the Supreme
Court Ever Made
• Dred Scott was a slave from Missouri. (MO)
Dred Scott
Dred Scott Decision :The Worst Decision the Supreme
Court Ever Made
• Scott and his owner moved to Illinois for four years.
Dred Scott
Dred Scott Decision :The Worst Decision the Supreme
Court Ever Made
• Scott’s owner died.
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Dred Scott Decision - :
*____________ sued for his freedom. He claimed that he
should be a free man since he lived in a free territory of IL for
four years.
Dred Scott
SUPREME COURT
DECISIONS:
Q: Was Scott a U.S.
citizen with the right to
sue?
A: NO
Q: Did living in a free
territory make Scott a
free man?
A: NO
Q: Did Congress have
the right to outlaw
slavery in any territory?
A: NO
Justice Roger B. Taney
“You’re a
mean one,
Justice
Taney”
• He was the US
Supreme Court
Justice that ruled in
the
_______________
that slaves were
not citizens and
had NO rights.
Roger B. Taney
“You guys are not
people..you are
property. You are
unfit to even hang
around with white
people. Slaves have
absolutely no
rights…End of
Story!!!."
A Huge Setback for Abolitionist
Teach your neighbor who was
Justice Roger B. Taney was.
Lincoln – Douglas
Debates
In 1858, Abraham
Lincoln challenged
Stephen Douglas for his
seat in the Senate.
Lincoln lost the
election, but it made
him a well known
figure.
Two years later, he
decided to run for
_______________
I don’t want
slavery to
spread.
I think the
territories
themselves
should decide
• Many in the South were afraid
if Lincoln were elected, slavery
would be outlawed.
• Some even said they would
LEAVE the Union if Lincoln
was elected.
Ugh…
Lincoln....as
president??Heck,
NO!!
.
Abraham Lincoln
• He was the 16th
President of the
United States.
“A House
Divided Against
Itself Cannot
Stand.”
Later,
Dude!!
• Fed up with the North,
South Carolina
seceded from the
Union on Dec. 20,
1860.
• Mississippi, Florida,
Alabama, Georgia,
Louisiana, and Texas
succeeded.
• 7 states succeeded
before Lincoln was
inaugurated.
The _________________
of America
States
Step 1-Form a new
government
Step 2-Elect Me
Step 3-Write a
Constitution
Step 4-Create a
Currency
Jefferson Davis
• The first and
________
president of the
Confederate
States of
America.
Teach your neighbor who
Jefferson Davis was.
Duh..Everyone
Knows Who I
Am!!!
1. Which of these people worked
to end slavery before and during
the Civil War?
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A. Andrew Jackson
B. Fredrick Douglass
C. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
D. Chief Roger B. Taney
2.
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I ruled in the
Dred Scot Case.
I said slaves were
property and had
no rights.
Who is described in the box above:
A. Dred Scot
B. Abraham Lincoln
C. Roger Taney
D. Fredrick Douglass
3. How many more people lived
in the north than the south?
4. What problem could this
cause for the South during the
Civil War?