1. Syllabus
Write down one of the expectations on the standards and benchmarks section.
If you turn in a productivity assignment late, do you get credit? If yes, how much?
What is the “exiting classroom procedure”?

2. Pre-Civil War legislation
What does the Law say?

3. Learning Targets
Success Criteria
Know the legislation that led up to the Civil War
I can show the connections between the legislations that led up to the Civil War.
Interpret a primary source
I can summarize the text from the Dred Scott case

4. Slavery Expansion and Legislation
Missouri Compromise
1820
New states?
Missouri slave, Maine free
soil
Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
Fugitive Slave Act

5. Slavery Expansion and Leg. Cont.
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Popular Sovereignty
Nullified Missouri Compromise
Nebraska- always planned on
free state
Kansas…what to do?
Bleeding Kansas
John Brown
Abolitionist
Murdered 5 people in Kansas
Harper’s Ferry

6. Who is this man?

7. Dred Scott Decision 1857 Questions 1. What was Dred Scott’s job?
2. Why did he sue for his freedom? Explain the events leading to the suit.
3. What is jurisdiction? Why is it so important?
4.What are the 2 questions that had to be answered? What did the Court find?
5. In your own words, write a summary of the portions of the case we looked at.