Dred Scott
• Doctor Emerson owned him
• Went to Wisconsin and other free areas
• Dred sued for freedom based on the fact that there was no slavery there.
Dred Scott v Sandford
1857 Panic
• Why?
• Over speculation of Western lands
• Europe economic problems
• Money problem
• Lost war contracts
• Bad for the North and the West
• Never affected the South
• Cotton must truly be King
• Made them more cocky and confident
1858 Illinois Senate Race
• Steven Douglas
Freeport Doctrine
1859
• John Brown
“MOSES”
1860 Election
• Republican
• Abraham Lincoln
• Northern Democrat
• Stephen Douglas
Election of 1860
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Republican party –
• Abraham Lincoln
• non-extension of slavery
• Protective tariff
• Pacific RR - Northern Route
• Internal improvements funded by fed. Govt.
• Homesteads!—C-p.502
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R-p.385
Election of 1860
• Southern Democrats - John Breckinridge
• Extension of slavery in territories
• Annexation of Cuba
Lincoln wins, but…
• Minority president • 60% preferred someone else
• Not one vote in South
Look what Bell did?
South Carolina vows to secede!
The “wacko state” secedes first!
The Divorce
• Mary Chestnut
• South Carolina
• Civil War Diarist
• "We are divorced, North and South, because we have hated each other so."
Buchanan, DO SOMETHING!
Confederate States of America
Jeff ain’t too good
• Jefferson Davis
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concerned mainly with military duties
neglects civilian morale
economy
lacks influence with state governments
President Abraham Lincoln