The Election of 1860

a.k.a. The official catalyst of war

REVIEW

OWhat was the Missouri Compromise?

OHow did the Kansas-Nebraska Act repeal the Missouri Compromise?

OWhy was Kansas given the title of “Bloody Kansas”?

OWhat is a tariff?

New info

OHomesteading- the act of the federal government providing areas of land for free (or a small fee) to encourage migration and settling of the land.

Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1856O Please copy down the following questions

and leave room to answer them:O 1. Who was Dred Scott?O 2. Why did Dred Scott assume he had

become free the moment he left Missouri?O 3. it was decided that Scott did not even

have the right to sue- why?O 4. What does Taney claim the U.S.

Constitution protects inherently as property?

O 5. On what platform was the Republican party started?

O https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j3lKSs2ZoAO Stop clip at 4:27

So what happened to Good Ol’ John Brown?

O October, 1859O John Brown, after studying historical slave

uprisings, and with backing from wealthy abolitionists, led a band of 21 white and black men to Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now W.V.)

O Plan was to attack the federal arsenal there, distribute the weapons to blacks in the area and lead a slave uprising

O He was captured and tried and hanged for high treason.

O Many in the North expressed admiration for Brown and some even referred to him as a martyr for the sacred cause of freedom.

O In the South there was an equal and opposite reaction. You can imagine how that went…

Just because it exists…O https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=X-W_93afO7o

O (caution all delicate ears, there are a couple of words in here…)