1. SSUSH9 The student will identify key events, issues, and individuals relating to the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War.
a. Explain the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the failure of popular sovereignty, Dred Scott case, and John Brown’s Raid.

2. Bell Ringer Does slavery still exist in the U.S.?
What forms, if any, does it exist in?
What actions can be taken to combat contemporary slavery?

3. Essential Question # 8 [Page 8]
What were the key laws and court cases surrounding the issue of slavery?
Include explanations of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, failure of popular sovereignty, Dred Scott, and John Brown’s Raid.
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Law / Court Case Details
You may either choose to use the back of Page 8 for extra / supplemental notes or you may carry your chart over on the back to provide more room for info inside your chart
Each of the following slides contains info concerning laws or legal cases surrounding the issue of slavery
Use the info provided to complete a chart like the one you see here
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Failure of Popular Sovereignty
Dred Scott v. Sanford
John Brown’s Raid

4. Kansas-Nebraska Act - created two new territories: Kansas and Nebraska
Signed in 1854, the Act, introduced by Stephen Douglas:
- repealed the Missouri Compromise (what was that?)
- created two new territories: Kansas and Nebraska
- would allow each territory to decide on the slavery issue by using “popular sovereignty”
- led to the formation of the Republican Party (1854) which supported keeping slavery out of the territories
- led to “Bleeding Kansas”

6. Bleeding Kansas Failure of Popular Sovereignty
Because Kansas would decide about slavery through popular sovereignty, both the North (antislavery) and the South (pro-slavery) sent thousands of people into Kansas to sway the vote
Tensions between the two groups led to violence and the destruction of property, including the sacking of Lawrence
By the end of 1856,
200 people had
been killed in the
skirmishes
How did the violence in Kansas
demonstrate that popular
sovereignty was a failure?

7. Dred Scott v. Sanford
Scott was taken by his master into the free state of Illinois, and then later, back into the slave state of Missouri
With the help of an abolitionist group Scott sued for freedom (1847), claiming that because he had lived in a free state, he should be free

8. Dred Scott
The case went to the Supreme Court where in 1857, the Court ruled against Scott
Because slaves were not citizens of the U.S., Scott could not sue in Federal Court
Scott was eventually freed in May 1857, but died nine months later*

9. John Brown’s Raid (Harper’s Ferry)
Who: An abolitionist who used violence against those supporting slavery
In 1859, he and his followers tried to support a slave uprising in Virginia by seizing a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry.

10. John Brown’s Raid
The uprising was quickly put down and after a trial, Brown was executed
Brown was viewed by many in the North as a martyr for the anti-slavery movement
How do you think Brown was viewed In the South-why?