Crisis Deepens Worksheet

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Section 3
The Crisis Deepens
Section 3 Focus Question
Key Events
Why did the Lincoln-Douglas debates and John Brown’s
Harriet Beecher
raid increase tensions between the North and South? To
1852
Stowe publishes
begin answering this question,
Uncle Tom’s
• Learn how a new antislavery party came to be.
Cabin.
• Explore the impact of the Dred Scott decision.
• Find out about the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
Supreme Court
1857
ruling in Dred
• Learn about John Brown’s raid.
Scott case de-
clares Missouri
Compromise
Section 3 Summary
unconstitutional.
The Lincoln-Douglas debates and John Brown’s raid caused
The Civil War
more controversy and anger over slavery.
1861
begins with
A New Antislavery Party
Confederate
The Whig Party split apart in 1854. Whigs who took a strong
bombardment
of Fort Sumter.
antislavery stand joined the new Republican Party. Its main
platform was to stop slavery from spreading to the western
territories. Northern Democrats and Free-Soilers also joined
the Republican Party. It quickly became powerful. In the 1856
Checkpoint
presidential election, the first Republican candidate, John C.
List three groups that joined the
Frémont, won 11 of the 16 free states. Still, the Democratic
Republican Party.
candidate, James Buchanan, won the presidential election.
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The Dred Scott Decision
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In 1857, the Supreme Court decided the case of Dred Scott v.
______________________________
Sandford.
Dred Scott
was an enslaved person who sued for
his freedom because he had lived with his master in states
where slavery was illegal.
Supreme Court Chief Justice
Roger B. Taney
ruled that
Scott had no right to sue in federal court because African
Americans were not citizens. Taney also declared that living
in a free state did not make enslaved people free. They were
property, and the property rights of their owners were
protected in all states.
Checkpoint
This meant that Congress did not have the power to
prohibit slavery in any territory, and that the Missouri
Name the kind of right that pro-
tected slavery in all states, accord-
Compromise was unconstitutional. Slavery was legal again
ing to the Dred Scott decision.
in all territories. Supporters of slavery rejoiced at this
ruling. Northerners, however, were stunned.
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