1. Slavery Dominates Politics
Aim: How does slavery affect politics in the 1850s?
Do Now: Open worksheets you completed on Monday
Mary Prince Frederick Douglass
Bleeding Kansas and Sumner

2. The Republican Party
Whig Party – organized to oppose the policies of Pres. Jackson
Split in party on slavery
Northern Whigs joined Republican Party
Founded on opposing slavery

3. Election of 1856 President James Buchanan elected
Goal – maintain the Union

4. Slavery Dominates Politics
Aim: Should John Brown be seen as a hero or as a crazed criminal?
Do Now: Take out homework – paragraph on yesterday’s Aim.

5. Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
Scott sues for his freedom because he lived in a free state with slaveholder
Decision – Slaves are property and cannot sue in U.S. courts
African – Americans
Are not citizens

6. John Brown John Brown – extreme abolitionist
Border Ruffian – proslavery person who moved to Kansas to vote
Killed 5 at Pottawatomie, Kansas

7. Attack on Harpers Ferry
Inspired slaves to fight for freedom
Take over U.S. arsenal (place to store weapons) at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
Arm slaves with guns
Stopped by Gen. Robert E. Lee’s forces
Brown captured and hanged for treason

8. Homework
Aim: Should John Brown be seen as a hero or as a crazed criminal?
At least 5 sentences.
Include:
Support your reasoning

9. Slavery Dominates Politics
Aim: Why were the Lincoln-Douglas Debates significant?
Do Now: Clear desk for Prayer Song

10. Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Abraham Lincoln (Rep.) vs. Stephen Douglas (Dem.)
Running for U.S. Senate for Illinois
Debate over expansion of slavery