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Antislavery Whigs and Democrats joined forces with Free-soilers to form Republican Party
Republican party we have todayRepublican party strength lays in the North. Why?
A New Political Party
Republican Party nominated John Fremont “Free soil, free speech and Fremont” Democrat Party nominated James Buchanan
supported Popular Sovereignty Know Nothing (American Party) nominated
Millard Fillmore James Buchanan won
The election of 1856
Dred Scott was an enslaved African American bought by an army doctor in Missouri
Moved with owner to Wisconsin territory where slavery was outlawed by Northwest Ordinance
Moved back to Missouri and owner died Abolitionist helped Dred Scott sue for
freedom Went to Supreme Court
Dred Scott Decision
Chief Roger Taney decision Dred Scott still a slave Being a slave, he is not a citizen and had no
right to bring a lawsuit Ruled that enslaved person was property and
can’t take property away from people without “due process of law”
Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional because Congress had no power to prohibit slavery
Even popular Sovereignty could not ban slavery
Courts Decision
Divided the country even more South praised North called the decision “a wicked and
false judgment and the greatest crime ever committed in the nation’s court
Reaction to Court Case
Lincoln –Douglas Debates
Stephen Douglass was known as “the Little Giant”. He was a very popular Senator.
Abraham Lincoln ran against Douglas.
Douglas was the favorite to win.
Douglas believed issue should be settled with popular sovereignty. He believed “This Union can exist forever divided into free and slave states as our fathers made it.”
Lincoln saw slavery as morally wrong. He stated “I believe that this government cannot endure permantently half slave and half slave.”
Lincoln-Douglas Debates