Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861

1. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861 Outline Dred Scott case, 1856 Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858 Brown’s Raid, 1859 Election and Secession, 1860 Summary Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the free Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

2. NOTE: THE NEXT TEAM ESSAY, INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND ANALYZED SOURCE PACKETS FOR ESSENTIAL QUESTION #3 ARE COMING DUE! KNOW AND ADHERE TO THE DUE DATES LISTED BELOW. STRONGLY CONSIDER FINISHING YOUR ASSIGNMENT BEFORE ITS ABSOLUTE DUE DATE AND TIME. Team members: Individual essay contributions for EQ #3 due 11:59 pm Saturday, November 17. Team editors: Team essay for EQ #3 due at 11:59 pm Wednesday, November 21. If you are doing a full EQ ## essay by yourself, it is due at 11:59 pm, Wednesday, November 21. ALL students: analyzed source packets, underlined/highlighted and glossed due at the start of class November 29. Packets turned in after class starts are considered late. Please be on time.

3. How to submit your assignment – Penalty if done incorrectly Individual essay contributions Name Team number Individual contribution Team editor Name – Editor Team number (list all members first, last names) Doing a full essay by yourself Name Full essay

4. Please file your assignment in the correct slot. I will penalize those incorrectly filed. Look at Turnitin ahead of time and contact me FAR IN ADVANCE if unsure. STRONGLY CONSIDER FINISHING YOUR ASSIGNMENT BEFORE ITS ABSOLUTE DUE DATE AND TIME. Team members: Individual essay contributions for EQ #3 due 11:59 pm Saturday, November 17. Team editors: Team essay for EQ #3 due at 11:59 pm Wednesday, November 21. If you are doing a full EQ ## essay by yourself, it is due at 11:59 pm, Wednesday, November 21. ALL students: analyzed source packets, underlined/highlighted and glossed due at the start of class November 29. Packets turned in after class starts are considered late. Please be on time.

5. Three questions tonight and throughout the course:What is history?What do we know about it, especially early American history? ?How do we know?

6. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861 8 Questions Although Stephen Douglas defeated Abraham Lincoln for the Senate in 1858, in another sense, Lincoln beat Douglas 16 years earlier.

7. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861 ''From where shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia . . . could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.'' Who said this? What year?

8. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861 ''From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia . . . could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.'' Abraham Lincoln, 1837

9. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861 Outline Dred Scott case, 1856 Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858 Brown’s Raid, 1859 Election and Secession, 1860 Summary Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the free Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union? Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

10. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861 Dred Scott

11. 3 Questions for the Supreme Court Can an African-American sue in federal court? Did prolonged residence on free soil make Scott free? Did Congress have the authority to create free territory at all? Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861

12. 3 Questions • Can an African-American sue in federal court? 2. Did prolonged residence on free soil make Scott free? 3. Did Congress have the authority to create free territory at all? No Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861 No No

13. “In the opinion of the court, . . . the language used in the Declaration of Independence [“that all men are created equal”], show[s], that neither the class of persons who had been imported as slaves . . . their descendants, whether . . . free or not, were . . . included in the . . words used in that memorable instrument... - R. Taney, Dred Scott v Sanford Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861

14. They [African-Americans] had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order . . so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit." - R. Taney, Dred Scott v Sanford Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861

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16. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861 Outline Dred Scott case, 1856 Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858 Brown’s Raid, 1859 Election and Secession, 1860 Summary Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the free Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

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18. If the people of Kansas want a slaveholding State, let them have it; and if they want a Free State they have a right to it; and it is not for the people of Illinois, or Missouri, or New York, or Kentucky, to complain, whatever the decision of the people of Kansas may be upon that point. - S. Douglas, 1858 debate Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861

19. . . . there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects---certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. " - A. Lincoln, 1858 debate

20. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861 8 Questions Although Stephen Douglas defeated Abraham Lincoln for the Senate in 1858, in another sense, Lincoln beat Douglas 16 years earlier.

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22. “Irrepressible Conflict”: 1856-1861 Outline Dred Scott case, 1856 Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858 Brown’s Raid, 1859 Election and Secession, 1860 Summary Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the free Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

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26. John Brown's Last Prophecy2nd, December, 1859I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away; but with Blood. I had as I now think: vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed; it might be done . Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861

27. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861 Outline Dred Scott case, 1856 Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858 Brown’s Raid, 1859 Election and Secession, 1860 Summary Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the free Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

28. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861 Lincoln Douglas Crittenden Bell Republican N. Democrat S. Democrat Cnst. Union

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30. . . .there still is no single good reason for precipitate action [secession]. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favoured land are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. - A. Lincoln, 1861 inaugural Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861

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32. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861 Outline Dred Scott case, 1856 Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858 Brown’s Raid, 1859 Election and Secession, 1860 Summary Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the free Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

33. Burns The cause https://vimeo.com/147750558 Garrison to Bleeding: 8:49 - 15:30 Dred to Harpers 15:30 – 22:20 Election to secession: 22:22 – 29:50 Inaugural 35:20 – end Sumter and aftermath: 0 – 4:58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw2yvAiD4QQ “Cause”: video 17 40 election to secession Ft. Sumter Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

34. NOTE: THE NEXT TEAM ESSAY, INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND ANALYZED SOURCE PACKETS FOR ESSENTIAL QUESTION #3 ARE COMING DUE! KNOW AND ADHERE TO THE DUE DATES LISTED BELOW. STRONGLY CONSIDER FINISHING YOUR ASSIGNMENT BEFORE ITS ABSOLUTE DUE DATE AND TIME. Team members: Individual essay contributions for EQ #3 due 11:59 pm Saturday, November 17. Team editors: Team essay for EQ #3 due at 11:59 pm Wednesday, November 21. If you are doing a full EQ ## essay by yourself, it is due at 11:59 pm, Wednesday, November 21. ALL students: analyzed source packets, underlined/highlighted and glossed due at the start of class November 29. Packets turned in after class starts are considered late. Please be on time.

35. How to submit your assignment – Penalty if done incorrectly Individual essay contributions Name Team number Individual contribution Team editor Name – Editor Team number (list all members first, last names) Doing a full essay by yourself Name Full essay

36. Please file your assignment in the correct slot. I will penalize those incorrectly field. Look at Turnitin ahead of time and contact me FAR IN ADVANCE if unsure. STRONGLY CONSIDER FINISHING YOUR ASSIGNMENT BEFORE ITS ABSOLUTE DUE DATE AND TIME. Team members: Individual essay contributions for EQ #3 due 11:59 pm Saturday, November 17. Team editors: Team essay for EQ #3 due at 11:59 pm Wednesday, November 21. If you are doing a full EQ ## essay by yourself, it is due at 11:59 pm, Wednesday, November 21. ALL students: analyzed source packets, underlined/highlighted and glossed due at the start of class November 29. Packets turned in after class starts are considered late. Please be on time.