DECIDE THIS MANS FATE

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DECIDE THIS MANS FATE
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• A 1
• Let states decide fewer fights
• Actual decision will inflame fights
• B 16
• It was illegal for him to be a slave at one point
• C 3
• Hes a slave and has no rights. It could
  encourage slave disorder.

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• A
• 1
• Wont push the slavery argument, allow time for
  another agreement.

• B
• 23
• Living in Ill. longtime in free state
  freedom.
• Slaveowner performed an illegal act by owning
  slaves in free territory.

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Sectional Violence in the 1850s
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Dred Scott Case (1857)

• DRED SCOTT IS NOT A FREE MAN
• Chief Justice, Roger Taney (Maryland)
• 1.) Blacks are not citizens ?have no right to sue
  in court.
• 2.) The Constitution protects all property in all
  places ? The Missouri Compromise had been
  unconstitutional

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Bleeding Kansas
Free-Soilers
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Bleeding Kansas

• Territorial Elections (1855)
• most Kansans are anti-slavery
• Border Ruffians from Missouri cross into Kansas,
  vote many times, ?shoot at anti-slavery voters ?
  win election.

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Bleeding Kansas

• Topeka Extralegal anti-slavery capital

• Lecompton Fraudulent pro-slavery capital

Massacres Lawrence Massacre (Lawrence, KS)
Pro-Slavery men shoot free-soilers Potawatomie
Creek Massacre - John Brown (abolitionist)
retaliation for the Lawrence Massacre
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CANING OF CHARLES SUMNER (1856)
Charles Sumner Mass. Senator The Crime Against
Kansas Preston Brooks beat Sumner Brooks
resigned, but was re-elected
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Lecompton Constitution (1857)

• Most Kansans are free -soilers
• Pro-Slavery Kansans write a pro-slavery state
  Constitution
• Buchanan asks Congress to appease the South and
  support it.
• Congress rejects it. Kansas remains a territory
  until 1861

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Harpers Ferry (1859)

• John Brown, abolitionist.
• Planned to lead a slave revolt
• Raided federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, VA.
• Executed, viewed as a martyr in North