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Dred Scott Case

Dred Scott Case. Dred Scott Decision - FACTS:. • Dred Scott was a slave from Missouri. (MO). Dred Scott. Dred Scott Decision - FACTS:. Scott and his owner moved to Minnesota (MN) for four years. Dred Scott. Dred Scott Decision - FACTS:. • Scott’s owner died after returning to Missouri.

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Dred Scott Case

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  1. Dred Scott Case

  2. Dred Scott Decision - FACTS: • Dred Scott was a slave from Missouri. (MO) Dred Scott

  3. Dred Scott Decision - FACTS: Scott and his owner moved to Minnesota (MN) for four years. Dred Scott

  4. Dred Scott Decision - FACTS: • Scott’s owner died after returning to Missouri. Dred Scott

  5. Dred Scott Decision - FACTS: * Scott sued for his freedom. He claimed that he should be a free man since he lived in a free territory (MN) for four years. Dred Scott

  6. SUPREME COURT DECISIONS: Q: Was Scott a U.S. citizen with the right to sue? A:NO Q: Did living in a free territory make Scott a free man? A:NO Q: Did Congress have the right to outlaw slavery in any territory? A:NO

  7. RESULTS: • Dred Scott was not given his freedom. • The Missouri Compromise was found to be unconstitutional. Open to slavery through popular sovereignty (Compromise of 1850) Open to slavery through popular sovereignty (KS-NE Act) Missouri Compromise line is declared unconstitutional (Dred Scott Decision)

  8. John Brown

  9. John Brown painting at Harper's Ferry

  10. * In 1856, an abolitionist named John Brown murdered five proslavery men. * Over 200 people died in the fighting that followed. The abolitionist John Brown lived in Osawatomie, Kansas Territory. Brown and his sons were responsible for the brutal murder of several proslavery men near Pottawatomie, Kansas.  The men were called out of their homes at night and hacked to death with swords. This was just one of many incidents that earned Kansas Territory the name of "Bleeding Kansas.”`

  11. John Brown’s Raid: • In 1859, John Brown and his followers seized a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. John Brown in August, 1859.

  12. Engine house at Harpers Ferry.

  13. Interior view of the engine house at Harpers Ferry during the siege. View photos of eight members of Brown’s raiding party.

  14. Marines storm the engine house.

  15. • Brown was caught and sentenced to death by hanging. Brown as a wounded prisoner after his capture.

  16. Brown being carried from court to prison.

  17. Last Moments of John Brown painting by Thomas Hovenden

  18. The hanging of John Brown.

  19. Brown's grave in North Elba, New York

  20. "Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I say, let it be done." --John Brown, statement at his sentencing on Nov. 2, 1859

  21. "[John Brown is] that new saint, than whom none purer or more brave was ever led by love of men into conflict and death,--the new saint awaiting his martyrdom, and who, if he shall suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the cross."--Ralph Waldo Emerson, from his lecture "Courage," delivered in Boston on Nov. 8, 1859

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