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• Explain why the Republican Party came into existence in the 1850s.
• Summarize the issues involved in the Dred Scott decision.
• Identify Abraham Lincoln’s and Stephen Douglas’s views on slavery.
• Describe the differing reactions in the North and the South to John Brown’s raid.
Objectives
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Key People
• Dred Scott − a slave seeking emancipation
• Roger B. Taney − the Chief Justice who ruled in Scott’s case
• Abraham Lincoln − elected President in 1860
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Why did tensions between the North and South grow stronger after the Lincoln-Douglas debates and John Brown’s raid?
In the late 1850s, political debates and court decisions highlighted the nation’s clashing views on slavery.
These events caused growing tension between the North and South.
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In 1854, the Whig Party split apart. Many northern Whigs formed a new party: the Republican Party.
The Republican Party’s main goal was to stop the spread of slavery into the western territories.
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The Republicans quickly became a powerful force in politics.
A Republican first ran for President in 1856.
RepublicanJohn C.
Frémont
Democrat James
Buchanan
Buchanan won, but Frémont carried 11 of the nation’s free states.
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In 1857, a slave named Dred Scott sued for his freedom.
Scott had lived with his owner in two places where slavery was illegal.
Soon after Buchanan took office, the U.S. Supreme Court made a landmark decision.
He argued that this meant he was a free man.
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Chief Justice Roger B. Taney wrote the decision in the Scott case.
Dred Scott Decision
• Scott could not sue because he was a slave and, therefore, not a U.S. citizen.
• Living in a free state did not make Scott free.
• Slaves are property protected by the U.S. Constitution.
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Southerners rejoiced because slavery was now legal in all territories.
Both northerners and southerners were shocked by the court’s decision.
Northerners had hoped slavery would die out.
They now feared it would spread throughout the West.
Justice Taney also ruled that Congress did not have the power to prohibit slavery in any territory.
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Many leaders spoke out against the ruling.
• Frederick Douglass hoped the outrage against the decision would fuel the abolition movement.
• Abraham Lincoln, an Illinois lawyer, argued against the idea that African Americans could not be citizens.
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Lincoln had served one term in Congress but had returned to practicing law.
Now, his opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act drew him back to the world of politics.
In 1858, Lincoln ran for Senate against his rival Stephen Douglas.
He joined the Republican party.
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Lincoln and Douglas engaged in a series of debates, which were followed throughout the country.
Douglas’s view Lincoln’s view
• Individual states should decide whether or not to continue the practice of slavery.
• Lincoln wants equality for African Americans.
• Slavery is wrong and it should not spread to the western territories.
• African Americans are entitled to the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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• Two years later, the two men would be rivals for the presidency.
• However, the debates helped Lincoln become a national figure.
Douglas won the election.
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In 1859, John Brown raised a group of followers to help him free slaves in the South.
They attacked the town of Harper’s Ferry, Virginia.
They seized guns and planned to start a slave revolt.
Brown was wounded and captured by Colonel Robert E. Lee.
Ten of Brown’s followers were killed.
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Brown was found guilty of murder and treason, and he was hanged in 1859.
Before Brown was sentenced, he gave a passionate defense of his actions.
The Bible instructed him to care for the poor and enslaved.
He was willing to give up his life to follow those instructions.
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Northerners praised Brown’s attempt to lead a slave revolt.
They mourned his death.
Northerners and Southerners reacted differently to Brown’s sentence.
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Southerners saw Brown as proof that the North was out to destroy their way of life.
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The continuing tensions over slavery drove the North and the South into talks of breaking up the United States.
The crisis over slavery deepened as the country approached the 1860 presidential election.
Could a new president bring the country back
together?
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• Describe the results of the election of 1860.
• Explain why southern states seceded from the Union.
• Summarize the events that led to the outbreak of the Civil War.
Section 4 Objectives:
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Key Term
• civil war – a war between opposing groups of the same country
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Why did the election of Abraham Lincoln spark the secession of southern states?
Abraham Lincoln took a stand against slavery in his debates against Douglas. In 1860, Lincoln was elected President.
Southerners felt they no longer had a voice in the national government. Some southern states seceded.
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Democrats became divided over whether to support slavery in the territories.
Northern Democrats nominated Stephen Douglas.
Stephen Douglas desperately sought to appease southern voters.
However, southerners often jeered at him during his campaign speeches.
Southern Democrats chose Vice President John Breckinridge.
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In total, four candidates ran for president in 1860.
Republicans Abraham Lincoln criticized slavery
Northern Democrats
Stephen Douglas favored individual states deciding on slavery
Southern Democrats
John Breckinridge supported slavery in the territories
Constitutional Union Party
John Bell promised to protect slavery and keep nation together
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The outcome of the election showed just how fragmented the nation had become:
Lincoln won in every free state.
Breckinridge won most of the slave states.
Bell won three states in the upper South.
Douglas won Missouri.
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Abraham Lincoln received enough electoral votes to win the election.
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Southerners felt that the President and Congress were now set against their interests—especially slavery.
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South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union.
Frustrated southern states formed the Confederate States of America.
Six other southern states followed.
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Some moderate southerners did not want to secede, but their voices were overwhelmed.
By March, the Confederacy had adopted a constitution.
Former Senator Jefferson Davis was named president.
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When President Lincoln was inaugurated on March 4, 1861, the nation faced the greatest crisis in its history.
Lincoln told the seceded states he would not “interfere… with slavery where it exists.”
The Confederate states responded by taking over federal property within their borders.
Lincoln encouraged the Confederacy to return to the union.
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Already, an urgent struggle had begun.
The commander at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, had refused to surrender to the Confederates.
The Confederates tried to starve the troops into surrendering.
Lincoln did not send troops because he did not want other states to secede.
He planned to send food on ships without guns.
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On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter.
The U.S. troops surrendered.
The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter marked the beginning of a long civil war.
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By 1861, many people in the North and South believed that war was unavoidable.
However, Americans were unprepared for the terrible war that would last for the next four years.
