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Dred Scott Decision and (21) Kansas-Nebraska Act

This document provides an overview of key events and issues that contributed to the growing sectional crisis and eventual outbreak of the Civil War in the United States during the 1850s. It discusses the Dred Scott decision, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the emergence of the Republican Party in opposition to the expansion of slavery, the caning of Charles Sumner, and rising tensions over issues like states' rights, slavery, and the industrialization of the North versus the agricultural economy of the South that divided the nation and led it to the brink of disunion and war.

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Dred Scott Decision and (21) Kansas-Nebraska Act

This document provides an overview of key events and issues that contributed to the growing sectional crisis and eventual outbreak of the Civil War in the United States during the 1850s. It discusses the Dred Scott decision, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the emergence of the Republican Party in opposition to the expansion of slavery, the caning of Charles Sumner, and rising tensions over issues like states' rights, slavery, and the industrialization of the North versus the agricultural economy of the South that divided the nation and led it to the brink of disunion and war.

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Lecture 11: The Nation Comes Apart

KEY TERMS

(20) Dred Scott Decision and (21) Kansas-Nebraska Act

Part I: Sectional Issues


A. Principal Elements of the Developing Crisis
a. The Expansion of Slavery
b. Declining National Character of Parties
c. Growing Refusal to Compromise
B. Continuing North/South Sectiona Divisions Over:
a. States’ Rights
b. Industrial vs. Agricultural Interests
i. Internal Improvements
c. Tariffs
d. Land Prices
e. Slavery and Its Expansion
C. Conflicting Interests Seen In:
a. Missouri Compromise (1820)
b. US-Mexican War (1846-1848)
c. Wilmot Proviso (1846)
d. Popular Sovereignty (1848)
e. Compromise of 1850

Part II: The 1850s


A. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
a. Harriet Beecher Stowe
B. “Death” of the Whig Party (1852)
a. North and South Whigs Divide Over Slavery
b. Election of 1852
i. Franklin Pierce (Dem) 254/Electoral 1.6mil/Popular
ii. Winfield Scott (Whig) 42/Electoral 1.3mil/Popular
iii. John Hale (Free Soil) 0/Electoral 156K/Popular
c. Southern Whigs Return to Democrat Party
C. Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
a. Senator Stephen A. Douglas (D-ILL)
b. Presidential Aspirations
c. Transcontinental Railroad
d. Remove Indians and Open for White Settlement
e. Popular Sovereignty
D. Birth of the Republican Party
a. Oppose the EXPANSION of slavery
b. Pro-Commercial and Industrial Development
c. Higher Protective Tariff
d. Federally Subsidized Transcontinental Railroad
e. Homestead Law (Free Land)
f. Only Gains Support in the North
g. Democrats Now the Only National Party
E. “Bleeding Kansas” (1855)
F. Sumner-Brookes Affair (1856)
G. The Dred Scott Decision (1857)
a. Dred Scott vs. Sanford
b. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney:
i. “Scott in not a citizen” (Because he was black) – Still a Slave –
Still Property – Regardless of Previous Residence
c. Compromises of 1820 & 1850 Found Unconstitutional
d. “Popular Sovereignty” NOT Constitutional – Not Binding
H. Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) – Illinois Senate Race
a. National Attention
b. “Popular Sovereignty” (Douglas) vs. “Dred Scott Decision” (Lincoln)
I. Election of 1860
a. Democratic Party
b. Republican Party
c. Election Results
i. Abraham Lincoln (Rep) 180/Electoral 1.8mil/Popular
ii. Stephen Douglas (N. Dem) 12/Electoral 1.3mil/Popular
iii. John Breckinridge (S. Dem) 72/Electoral 848K/Popular
iv. John Bell (Const. Union) 39/Electoral 592L/Popular

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