1. Pre-Civil War Events
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2. Kansas - Nebraska Act Related Vocabulary
Popular Sovereignty-The belief that the people living in a territory should decide for themselves if the territory should become a slave state or free state
Freesoiler- A person who came to Kansas after the passage of the Kansas- Nebraska Act.
Border Ruffian- A person who was in favor of slavery and came across the border from Missouri to vote illegally in elections

3. Vocabulary (Continued)
Proslavery-People that were in favor of slavery and believed that Kansas should become a slave state
Antislavery-People that were not in favor of slavery and believed that Kansas should become a free state
Abolitionists-A radical that thought that slavery should be abolished or done away with because it was immoral
Land Speculators-People that obtained land in Kansas with the hopes of buying it at a low price and selling it at a high Price

4. The Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854
Repeals the Missouri Compromise
Includes the Idea of Popular Sovereignty
Drawn up by a senator by the name of Stephen Douglass
After the passage of the Kansas Nebraska Act which included the idea of Popular Sovereignty caused a lot of violence in Bloodshed over the slavery issue. Some people living here wanted Kansas to become a free state and others wanted it to become a slave state. It was a very emotional issue. Popular sovereignty said let the people decide for themselves whether or not Kansas would become a slave state or free state

6. Impact of the Kansas Nebraska Act
Proslavery people and the Antislavery people started to fight with each other over the issue of slavery
The Proslavery men wanted to vote to make sure Kansas would become a slave state
The Antislavery people wanted to vote to make sure Kansas would become a free state
Freesoilers came to Kansas in hopes of making Kansas a free state
The two groups of people hated each other because of their view of Slavery. Explain the terms of Pro-slavers and

7. Impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas-This was the term that refers to the disagreement between the antislavery men and the proslavery men over control of Kansas

8. Proslavers and Antislavers take action shortly after the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
The northern states organize groups of people to move to Kansas. These people became known as freesoilers. Their only reason for moving to Kansas was to make sure Kansas would become a free state
Missouri organized what became known as Border Ruffians to come across the border and vote illegally in elections.
The reason they take action is to determine the outcome of Kansas statehood. They took matters into their own hands.

9. Dred Scott Decision (1857)

10. Dred Scott Dred Scott was a slave from Missouri
His owner traveled with Scott to Illinois and Wisconsin (free states).
After his owner dies, Scott wants freedom.
First, asks to pay for his freedom from his former master’s mistress. She says no.
He sues for freedom.

11. Court Battle
Scott argued that since he had lived for a time in free states (Wisconsin and Illinois) he should legally be free (slavery was illegal in these states).
Initially granted freedom but Missouri Supreme Court reverses decision.
Goes to the U.S. Supreme Court.
What do they decide?

12. 1857
The United States Supreme Court (Chief Justice Roger B. Taney) ruled that all people of African ancestry—slaves as well as those who were free—could never become citizens of the United States and therefore could not sue in federal court. The court also ruled that the federal government did not have the power to prohibit slavery in its territories because it deprived citizens of their constitutional protection of their property.

13. Impact of the Decision
While the decision was well-received by slaveholders in the South, many northerners were outraged. The decision greatly influenced the nomination of Abraham Lincoln (who many thought would do something to fix the problems surrounding slavery) to the Republican Party and his subsequent election, which in turn led to the South's secession from the Union.

14. Supreme Court hands down the Dred Scott decision
Slaves cannot sue the U.S. for their freedom because they are property.
They are not citizens and have no legal right under the Constitution.
Supreme Court legalized slavery by saying that
Congress could not stop a slaveowner from moving his slaves to a new territory
Missouri Compromise and all other compromises were unconstitutional
North refused to enforce Fugitive Slave Law
Free states pass personal liberty laws.
Republicans claim the decision is not binding
Southerners call on the North to accept the decision if the South is to remain in the Union.
Chart/Effect of Scott

15. Reading/Scott decision
DRED SCOTT DECISION
Chief Justice Roger B.Taney (1777 to 1864) in the case of Dred Scott referred to the status of slaves when the Constitution was adopted.
“They had (slaves) for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order; and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect. This opinion was at that time fixed and universal in the civilized portion of the white race.”
Reading/Scott decision

16. What happened to Dred Scott?
1857 The Blow brothers, his former master's sons and childhood friends of Scott, had helped pay Scott's legal fees through the years. After the Supreme Court's decision, they purchased Scott and his wife and set them free.
Scott was 58 years old.

17. 1858 Dred Scott died nine months after gaining his freedom.
He is buried in St. Louis.

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