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15.3 Challenges to slavery

Points in time 1854 - Republican Party is formed 1856 - James Buchanan is elected

president 1857 - Dred Scott decision states

that all slaves are properties 1859 – John Brown raids Harpers

Ferry, Virginia



The Republican Party 1854 - Republican Party is formed Antislavery Whigs Antislavery Democrats Free-Soilers to rally as one man to establish

liberty and to overthrow the Slave Power



The Republican Party won control of the House of the

Representatives almost no support in the south


Challenges to slavery The election of 1856

Republicans - John C. Fremont; an explorer in the west, a champion of free CA; sectional party and abolitionists

Democrats - James Buchanan; PA, minister to Great Britain, untainted by the Kansas troubles; popular sovereignty


Challenges to slavery

The election of 1856 American Party (Know-Nothing) -

Millard Fillmore Southern votes won Buchanan

the presidency After the election the Know-

Nothings who opposed slavery joined the Republicans



Dred Scott Case Dred Scott; an enslaved African

American sued for his freedom after his

master died claimed that he should be free by

virtue of his residence on free soil



Court’s decision Chief Justice Roger Taney ruled

that Scott was a property and has no right to sue.

5th amendment was cited Missouri compromise was ruled

unconstitutional


Challenges to slavery reaction to the decision

many southerners were elated Republicans were outraged “wicked and false judgment” “greatest crime” vowed to reverse the decision if

they won the presidency in 1860 Frederick Douglas was hopeful


Challenges to slavery Lincoln against Douglas

senate race, Illinois incumbent, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas;

successful lawyer, won a seat in the house 1842, senate in

1846, “Little Giant”, antislavery, but believes in popular

sovereignty as a way to solve the issue


Challenges to slavery Lincoln against Douglas

challenger, Republican Abraham Lincoln, successful lawyer,

lacks formal education, excellent political instincts,

saw slavery as morally wrong and should not be allowed to spread

admits that there is no easy way to eliminate slavery where it already existed


Challenges to slavery the lincoln – douglas debates

1858; August – October, seven times Slavery Douglas accused Lincoln of pointing

to the breakup of the union Freeport Doctrine; people could

exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws protecting slaveholders rights


Challenges to slavery the lincoln – douglas debates

Douglas was reelected to Senate in 1858, but lost support of the south in the 1860 presidential election

Lincoln lost the senate race, but gained national spotlight and support as a presidential candidate.


Challenges to slavery John Brown’s Raid

John Brown, killed 5 proslavery Kansans in 1856

October 1859, Harper’s Ferry, VA Colonel Robert E. Lee; 10 men

including two of Brown’s sons killed; 1 marine 4 civilians, 2 slaves

guilty of murder and treason Hanged Dec. 2, 1859


Challenges to slavery sectional response

Denounced for promoting violence A hero to some Ralph Waldo Emerson called him a

martyr

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