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UNITED STATES HISTORY CHALLENGES TO SLAVERY

BOARD QUESTIONS 1) WHAT IS THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT? 2) WHO HIT CHARLES SUMMER WITH A CANE IN THE SENATE CHAMBER? 3) WHAT IS THE KANSAS - NEBRASKA ACT? 4) WHO WAS JOHN BROWN? 5) WHY DID NEWSPAPERS CALL IT BLEEDING KANSAS?

CHAPTER 15 SECTION 3 NOTES ARSENAL MARTYR REPUBLICAN PARTY FREEPORT DOCTRINE

PEOPLE AND PLACES TO KNOW JOHN C. FREMONT JAMES BUCHANAN DRED SCOTT ROGER B. TANEY ABRAHAM LINCOLN

THE ELECTION OF 1856 JOHN C. FREMONT WAS THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE. THEIR SLOGAN WAS FREE SOIL, FREE SPEECH, AND FREMONT. JAMES BUCHANAN WAS THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE. THEY ENDORSED THE IDEA OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY. MILLARD FILLMORE WAS THE AMERICAN PARTY CANDIDATE. THEY STOOD FOR KICKING NON AMERICANS OUT OF THE COUNTRY.

ELECTION OF 1856 THE COUNTRY WAS SO DIVIDED BECAUSE OF SECTIONALISM. THE VOTES FOR PRESIDENT WERE VERY DIVIDED. JAMES BUCHANAN WINS THE ELECTION. IT WAS A CLOSE RACE BETWEEN HIM AND FILLMORE.

THE DRED SCOTT DECISION DRED SCOTT WAS A SLAVE WHO WITH HIS MASTER HAD MOVED TO THE FREE STATE OF ILLINOIS. THEY MOVED BACK TO MISSOURI WERE HIS MASTER DIED. HE SUED FOR HIS FREEDOM. THE DECISION MADE IT ALL THE WAY TO THE SUPREME COURT.

THE DRED SCOTT DECISION CHEIF JUSTICE ROGER B. TANEY EXPLAINED THAT SCOTT WAS A SLAVE AND SLAVES ARE PROPERTY AND PROPERTY CAN NOT SUE ITS OWNER FOR FREEDOM. TANEY ALSO STATED THAT THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY WAS ALSO UNCONSTITUTIONAL. THE GOVERNMENT COULD NOT KEEP PEOPLE FROM OWNING SLAVES.

THE LINCOLN - DOUGLAS DEBATES WHO WOULD WIN THE SENATE SEAT IN ILLINOIS? STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS ABRAHAM LINCOLN BOTH SUCCESSFUL LAWYERS DOUGLAS BELIEVED THAT POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY COULD END SLAVERY IN TIME.

LINCOLN- DOUGLAS DEBATES LINCOLN BELIEVED SLAVERY WAS MORALY WRONG, BUT WOULD BE HARD TO END IN PLACE IT HAD BEEN FOR SO LONG HE BELIEVE THAT ALL THAT COULD BE DONE WAS STOP THE SPREAD OF SLAVERY TO NEW TERRITORIES. LINCOLN CHALLENGED DOUGLAS TO SEVEN DEBATES ALL ACROSS ILLINOIS.

LINCOLN- DOUGLAS DEBATES FREEPORT DOCTRINE - IN A DEBATE AT FREEPORT LINCOLN ASKED DOUGLAS TO EXPLAIN HOW POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY WOULD HELP THE SLAVERY ISSUE. DOUGLAS RESPONDED THAT THE TERRITORIES COULD NOT PASS LEGISLATION TO PROTECT SLAVE HOLDERS RIGHTS. THIS GAINED DOUGLAS ANTISLAVERY VOTES BUT LOST HIM PROSLAVERY VOTES.

LINCOLN- DOUGLAS DEBATES LINCOLN RESPONDED BY SAYING “ IN THE RIGHT TO EAT THE BREAD... WHICH HIS OWN HAND EARNS, AN AFRICAN AMERICAN IS MY EQUAL AND THE EQUAL OF SENATOR DOUGLAS, AND THE EQUAL OF EVERY LIVING MAN.” THE REAL ISSUE IS BETWEEN THE MEN WHO THINK SLAVERY IS WRONG. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY THINKS IT IS WRONG.” LINCOLN WHO HAD LITTLE SUPORT BEFORE THE DEBATE, GAINS A NATIONAL REPUTATION.

HARPERS FERRY RAID JOHN BROWN ALONG WITH 18 OTHER MEN RAID HARPERS FERRY TO STEAL GUNS AND AMMO FROM AN ARSENAL TO ARM SLAVES. THE JOB WAS FINANCED AND PLANNED BY NORTHERN ABOLITIONIST. JOHN BROWN AND HIS MEN WERE STOPPED QUICKLY BY LOCALS AND FEDERAL TROOPS. BROWN WAS CONVICTED OF TREASON AND HUNG

JOHN BROWN

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