Social Sciences and History / Unit 1 SSH 0036 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Kansas-Nebraska, Dred Scott, and the Republicans
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The idea
The Fugitive Slave Act of eighteen fifty made helping escapees a crime. Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Act of eighteen fifty-four applied popular sovereignty, Kansas bled, and the Republican Party formed to stop slavery's spread.
In practice
Dred Scott, eighteen fifty-seven: no Black citizenship, no bar on territorial slavery.
Where people slip
The ruling voided the Republican platform; the eighteen fifty-eight debates with Douglas made Lincoln nationally known.
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