The Crisis Deepens
14.3
Key People
• Dred Scott
• Roger B. Taney
• Abraham Lincoln
Why It Matters
• Bitterness between slave and free states
created change in our political parties
A New Anti-Slavery Party
Republican Party formed
• Whig split apart in 1854. Some Northern
Whigs joined the Republican Party
• Free-Soil Party joins with Republican party
• Focus on Republican Party is to limit growth of
Slavery
• The party gains strength in the North
Dred Scott Decision
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRVTrPcMDg
• Dred Scott sued for his freedom because he
had lived in the free state of Illinois
• Anti-slavery league helped him with his
lawsuit
Roger B. Taney Ruling
Dred Scott v. Sanford decision
• Chief Supreme Court Roger B. Taney ruled Scott
was property and therefore had no right to file a
lawsuit
• Living in a free state did not make a slave free
• Property rights were protected under the U.S.
Constitution
• Congress did NOT have the power to prohibit
slavery in any territory. Thus, the Missouri
Compromise was Unconsititutional.
Reaction
South
• Rejoiced
• Slavery is legal in all
territory
North
• Slavery now could spread to
the West
• Stunned and Angry
• Fredrick Douglass stated
“my hopes were never
brighter than now”
• Why did he believe this?
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
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Abraham Lincoln: a lawyer
Stephen Douglas: The State of Illinois Senator
Running for U.S. Senate for Illinois
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House Divided
• “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I do
not believe this government can endure,
permanently, half slave and half free. I do not
expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect
the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to
be divided. It will become all one thing or all the
other.
• Does Lincoln predict that the United States will
divide?
• Does he support free or slave? Support your
answer with facts.
Debating Slavery
• Douglas supports popular sovereignty: “Each state of
this Union has a right to do as it pleases on the subject
of slavery”
• Lincoln stated “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is
wrong.” during one debate.
• Lincoln also stated “ I am not, nor ever have been in
favor of bringing about in ant way the social political
equality of the white and black races.
• Lincoln also said: “There is no reason in the world why
the Negro is not entitled to all the right enumerated in
the Declaration of Independence, the right to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Douglas won the Senate Election
• However the debates made Lincoln known
throughout the country on his slave stand.
• ? What is Lincoln stand on slavery?
John Brown’s Raid
• John Brown, Abolitionist, killed Pro-Slavery
men in Kansas during Bleeding Kansas and got
away with murder.
• In 1859, Brown decides to take the issue of
Slavery on to himself.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11gevEoaJ
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How does the paintings on page 497 &
498 view John Brown?
What was John Brown’s goal in
launching the raid on Harpers Ferry?