Analyze how deepening sectional distrust affected the nation’s politics.

1. 10.3: Political Realignment Deepens the Crisis What developments deepened the divisions between the North and South? • Analyze how deepening sectional distrust affected the nation’s politics. • Compare the positions of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas on the issue of slavery. • Explain the effect of John Brown’s raid on the slavery debate.

2. In the presidential election of 1856 there were 5 political parties. Analyze how deepening sectional distrust affected the nation’s politics.

3. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the case of Dred Scott, an enslaved man who had lived in a free state and sued for his freedom. Analyze how deepening sectional distrust affected the nation’s politics. Within a year of the election, another event intensified the divisions in the nation over slavery.

4. Analyze how deepening sectional distrust affected the nation’s politics. DRED SCOTT DECISION(1857) • Dred Scott was a slave who spent time with is master in free territory • Scott sued for his freedom • The case was eventually heard by the Supreme Court • The Missouri Compromise came into question • Southerners favored the ruling while Northerners did not Read: The Dred Scott Decision Triggers Outrage, p.341-343 Chapter 10, section 3, p.341

5. Analyze how deepening sectional distrust affected the nation’s politics. Dred Scott Chapter 10, section 3, p.341

6. Analyze how deepening sectional distrust affected the nation’s politics. Dred Scott Chapter 10, section 3, p.341

7. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney handed down the controversial decision in March, 1857. Analyze how deepening sectional distrust affected the nation’s politics.

8. ruled against Scott. said slaves were property and not allowed to sue in court. said the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. pleased the South. angered the North and abolitionists. Analyze how deepening sectional distrust affected the nation’s politics. The Dred Scott decision:

9. Compare the positions of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas on the issue of slavery. In 1858, in a race for the Illinois senate seat, Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln debated the issue of slavery. The seven debates got national attention.

10. LINCOLN-DOUGLASS DEBATE(1858) • Lincoln and Douglas debated in the race to be the next Senator from Illinois • Douglas believed in deciding slavery by popular sovereignty. • Lincoln believed that slavery should NOT be allowed to spread into the territories. • Lincoln ALSO believed the Nation could not survive if the fighting continued to rip the Union apart with the slavery issue. Chapter 10, section 3, p.339

11. Sectionalism Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) Chapter 10, section 3, p.341

12. On the issue of slavery: Compare the positions of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas on the issue of slavery.

13. Compare the positions of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas on the issue of slavery.

14. Douglas won the Senate seat by a slim margin. The debates gave Abraham Lincoln national recognition that was important in the 1860 presidential election. Compare the positions of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas on the issue of slavery. Both candidates believed the issue of slavery had to be resolved peacefully, within the framework of laws.

15. Explain the effect of John Brown’s raid on the slavery debate.

16. His goal was to inspire local slaves to join a revolution that would defeat slavery. Explain the effect of John Brown’s raid on the slavery debate. John Brown organized a small party of men and attacked a federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferryin Virginia.

17. John Brown’s raid failed but intensified national division. Explain the effect of John Brown’s raid on the slavery debate. Most abolitionists (black and white) refused to join Brown although a few sent money for guns. Brown was arrested, tried, and executed. Lincoln and other Republicans condemned Brown. The South was on alert and many prepared for war.

18. Explain the effect of John Brown’s raid on the slavery debate. Near the end of the 1850s, attempts at compromise over slavery had failed. The possibility of war between the North and South loomed.

19. What developments deepened the divisions between the North and South? By the mid-1850s, events caused a deep divide between sections of the nation that seemed unable to be resolved through negotiation and compromise. As new political parties emerged, more opinions continued to surface. Two key figured, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, seemed to represent the main beliefs in the North. As the westward expansion continued, these deep sectional differences threatened to tear the nation apart. Violent clashes began to emerge. Analyze how deepening sectional distrust affected the nation’s politics. Compare the positions of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas on the issue of slavery. Explain the effect of John Brown’s raid on the slavery debate.