Civil_War_Notes

Civil War Notes American Civil War Notes PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1860 - Democratic party unable to agree on a platform for a candidate; Northern Democrats stood for popular sovereinty (authority rests with the people) and the nominated Stephen Douglas. Southern democrates demanded enforcements of the Dred Scott descion (Scott a negro slave had been taken by his master into Minnesota a free territoy, then brought back to Missouri a slave state. As a test case, the abolishionsit had Scott sue for his freedom on the grounds that his residentce in a free territory made him a free man-supreme court ruled against Scott Cheif Justice Taney stated that slaves were property, right to take property into federal territories; and the Missouri Compromise which prohibited slavery in part of the Louisiana Purchase was unconstitutional) - Republican opposed extention of slaveryt into the territoies but promised noto interefere with slavery in the states appealed to Northern buisnessmen and western settlers-protective tarriiffs; federal aid for internal south, slavery, states, union, southern, lincoln, war, north, federal, free, slave, scott, right, civil, western, succession, stated, secede, republicans, party, northern, nominated, government, goods, differences, democratic, control, claimed, 1861, west, vote, territoies, state, slaves, secedes