Transcript Chapter 14 Section 3

Chapter 14 Section 3
THE CRISIS DEEPENS
PERRY’S POINTS
1.) IDENTIFY LINCOLN’S AND DOUGLAS’S VIEWS ON
SLAVERY
2.) DESCRIBE THE REACTIONS TO JOHN BROWN IN
NORTH AND SOUTH
3.) DISCUSS THE CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR
Vocabulary
 Dred Scott
 Roger B. Taney
 Abraham Lincoln
New Antislavery Party
 Whig Party split, Northerners started Republican
party
 Main goal was to stop spread of slavery!
 Nominated John c. Fremont as President
Buchanan is
nominated by
Democrats and
becomes President
in 1856
Dred Scott
•Dred Scott was slave owned by Army
doctor, lived in Wisconsin, Illinois, and
Missouri
•Slavery Illegal in Wisconsin and Illionis
•DO YOU THINK DRED SCOTT SHOULD
BE LEGALLY FREED?
Dred Scott Decision
 Supreme Court justice Roger B. Taney wrote:
 Scott was not a free man
 No right to sue in federal court, because he’s not a citizen
 Living in free territory did not make an enslaved person free
because they are property
Go
Slavery!!!!
Reaction to Court Decision
 Democrats Happy! Slavery legal in all territory
 Republicans outraged! Get more whites to join party
 Got attention of Lincoln to get involved in Politics!!!
John Brown
•Massacred pro slavery forces in
Kansas
•God told him to end slavery
•Raised money for an armed attack on
harpers ferry
•Goal: seize guns stored at
Harpers Ferry, Virginia
•Lead a slave revolt
John Brown is Captured
 Found guilty of murder and treason
 Hung by the neck on December 2, 1859
 Was John Brown a Hero? Or a Villain?