Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott, Elcetion of 1860

The Kansas- Nebraska Act was an act the allowed the people of that territory to vote on whether to have slavery or not. The person who suggested this was Stephen A. Douglas from Illinois. Who just so happened helped Henry Clay but the Compromise of 1850 into law only four years earlier was now on the brink of causing more tension with the North ans South. But since the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was still in effect it had to be repeal the compromise that had helped tension between the North and the South for 34 years. It also happens that Henry Clay worked on the Compromise of 1820 too. So after it was repealed, people had to vote on slavery or no slavery. The North was not happy at all!!

The Dred Scott Case

 

 

The Dred Scott case was about a man named Dred Scott who was a slave who had lived in the state of Illinois which was a free state and in the free territory of Wisconsin was now going to the Slave state of Missouri and he went to the Supreme Court in hopes that he would become a free man. But the supreme court ruled that no blacks could ever become citizens of the United States of America and they also labeled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional in the process. But Dred Scott got his freedom when his lawyers raised enough money to but his freedom.

 



 

The Election of 1860

 

 

The Republicans knew that they had a chance  to win the election with so much madness going on in the country over slavery and what not. The Republicans choose Abraham Lincoln who they believed could win the key states in the country. There were four candidates in the election of 1860 which split the electoral and popular vote. Although Lincoln only received 40% of the popular vote the other 60% were divided among the other three candidates. He also got 180 delegates and was now president of The United States of America.

 

 

 

How would the country react? South Carolina broke away from the Union few weeks after Abraham Lincoln became president.

 

Fast fact: This week marked Abraham Lincoln's 204th birthday and on the 22nd of February will mark the 281st birthday of our first U.S president George Washington.

 

 

 

 

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h92.html

http://www.ushistory.org/us/32d.asp

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2933.html



http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/kansas.html
http://www.ushistory.org/us/31a.asp