Fugitive Slave Act

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Fugitive Slave Act

• Part of the Compromise of 1850
• Federal law which required the return of runaway
  slaves, no matter where they were captured
• Escaping to a free state would not protect them

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Georgia Platform
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• Many Georgians opposed the Compromise of 1850
• Felt Southern rights were not being protected
• General Assembly met

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What Georgias Platform said

• Georgia would accept the Compromise of 1850
• North to honor the Fugitive Slave Act
• North would stop trying to ban slavery in new
  territories and states-Georgia would decide for
  itself the issue of slavery
• If not-Georgia secession was a possibility

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QUICK QUIZ

• The Georgia Platform was a statement supporting
• A. states rights
• B. popular sovereignty
• C. the Compromise of 1850
• D. slavery throughout the United States

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Dred Scott

• The Dred Scott Decision
• A Segment of Federal Government The Supreme
  Court

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Dred Scott
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Dred Scott

• Dred Scott a Missouri slave
• He had lived with his master in the free
• state Illinois for a period of time
• Sued for his freedom
• He appealed to the Supreme Court

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Supreme Court Ruling

• When Constitution written slaves were property
  and didnt have rights
• Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional because
  it limited peoples right to own property
  (slaves)
• Dred Scott lost
• Further divided the North and South

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• Whos rights were greater?
• Those of the states?
• or the
• Federal government?

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• Dred Scott
• A Segment of The American Civil War The Causes
  of War