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DRED SCOTT CASE

DRED SCOTT CASE. SCOTT IS A SLAVE FROM MISSOURI, Taken to LIVE IN ILLINOIS (5 YEARS IN WISCONSON). NO SLAVERY PERMITTED IN THE NORTH – SO HE SUES FOR HIS FREEDOM. CASE GETS TO THE SUPREME COURT – CHEIF JUSTICE TANEY. SCOTT LOSES 7-2 – HE IS NOT A CITIZEN – A SLAVE IS

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DRED SCOTT CASE

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  1. DRED SCOTT CASE SCOTT IS A SLAVE FROM MISSOURI, Taken to LIVE IN ILLINOIS (5 YEARS IN WISCONSON) NO SLAVERY PERMITTED IN THE NORTH – SO HE SUES FOR HIS FREEDOM CASE GETS TO THE SUPREME COURT – CHEIF JUSTICE TANEY SCOTT LOSES 7-2 – HE IS NOT A CITIZEN – A SLAVE IS STILL A SLAVE IN A FREE STATE

  2. RESULTS OF DECISON Decision was handed down by Chief Justice Taney (a southerner who had freed slaves) Scott couldn’t sue in federal court because: -He wasn’t a citizen -and had “no rights which a white man should be bound to respect” Being in a free state did not make a slave free Northerners worried ruling made slavery constitutional. Feared the South’s gvmt. power

  3. LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES LINCOLN & DOUGLAS ARE RUNNING FOR SENATE IN 1856 (ILLINOIS) Debates all over the state Vast Differences Douglas is the incumbent

  4. THE DEBATE DOUGLAS SUPPORTS POPULAR SOVEREIGNITY HOUSE DIVIDE They both portrayed the other as something they weren’t STRUG DOUGLAS WINS ELECTION, BUT LINCOLN GETS NATIONAL ATTENTION

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