1. PART 3

2. Republican Party
Combination of Whigs, Free-Soilers, Democrats, and Abolitionist.
Against Slavery

3. Election of 1856 Democrats James Buchanan Republicans John C. Fremont
American Party
Millard Fillmore

4. Dred Scott Case Slave of Dr. John Emerson
Traveled to Illinois and Wisconsin
Dr. Emerson died Scott became slave of his widow
1846 Scott sued for his freedom

5. Dred Scott Case Lower court ruled in Scott’s favor
Overturned by Missouri Supreme Court
Reached U.S. Supreme Court in 1857

6. U.S. Supreme Court Ruling
Chief Justice Taney’s Rulings
Citizenship
Founders believed African Americans had no rights white men were bound to respect.
Residence on free soil
Did not make him free
Declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional

7. The Pot Starts to Boil Causes for Conflict
Failure of the Missouri Compromise
Failure of Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott decision
Short-Term Effects
Political Battles
Sectional differences
“Bleeding Kansas”
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Long-Term Effect
Civil War

8. Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Put Slavery as a central issue
If congress could not ban slavery how could the people in a territory
Contradiction of Dred Scott decision and Popular Sovereignty
Freeport Doctrine created
Freeport Doctrine
The notion that the police would enforce the voter’s decision if it contradicted the Supreme Court’s own decision in the Dred Scott Case

9. Washington
Adams
Jefferson
Madison
Monroe
JQ Adams
Jackson
Van Buren
Harrison
Tyler
Polk
Taylor
Fillmore
Pierce
Buchanan
Lincoln