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