Dred Scott Your revision grid needs completing up until Emergence of the Republican Party (we will do the 1856 election next week). Due in 2 weeks. Flipped Learning: Reminder Include: Who was nominated as presidential candidate by each
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Dred Scott<br>
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Your revision grid needs completing up until Emergence of the Republican Party (we will do the 1856 election next week). Due in 2 weeks. Flipped Learning: Reminder<br>
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Include:
Who was nominated as presidential candidate by each party and why
1856 campaign
1856 result (try and get a map of the USA that shows these results)
Raw votes
Percentage
Electoral college votes
TASK: Compare your findings with your table and add anything you have missed in a green pen Flipped Learning: Due today<br>
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Self Assessment
GB3 Rewrite Write a paragraph that compares your GB3 rewrite to your first attempt.
What is different about your rewrite?
How does this impact the quality of your answer?
What do you still need to work on?<br>
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Topic: Dred Scott<br>
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Competition time! Who can remember the most about the United States Supreme Court. You have 2 minutes to brainstorm as much as you can remember… GO!<br>
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What would you do?! You will now be given a pack with 3 documents:
The background of the case
How the case reached the Supreme Court
What you need to consider
TASK: Complete the table by finding argument in favour of Dred Scott, and arguments against Dred Scott.<br>
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Consequences of Dred Scott Using your ‘Impact of the Dred Scott case’ handout, come to a decision on the following question.
How significant was the Dred Scott decision in the destabilisation of relations between the North and the South?<br>
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With reference to this sources and your understanding of the historical context, is this source to a historian studying the reaction to the Dred Scott decision? Adapted from an article in the newspaper, the Charleston Mercury (South Carolina), entitled ‘The Decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case, and its Tremendous Consequences’, March 16th 1857
The Dred Scott decision, in a political party view, is the judgement that Congress has no power and can delegate no power over the question of slavery in the Territories. This decision, at a single blow, smashes the anti-slavery platform of the late great Northern Republican Party into atoms. The policy of legislating slavery out of Kansas and the other Territories of the Union by Congress will no longer avail them. Congress has no power in the Territories. That is settled. What was in doubt is in doubt no longer. The supreme law is expounded by the supreme authority and disobedience is rebellion, treason and revolution. The Republican Party henceforth must choose between submission and revolution – loyalty and treason.<br>
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With reference to this sources and your understanding of the historical context, is this source to a historian studying the reaction to the Dred Scott decision? Adapted from an article in the newspaper, the Charleston Mercury (South Carolina), entitled ‘The Decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case, and its Tremendous Consequences’, March 16th 1857
The Dred Scott decision, in a political party view, is the judgement that Congress has no power and can delegate no power over the question of slavery in the Territories. This decision, at a single blow, smashes the anti-slavery platform of the late great Northern Republican Party into atoms. The policy of legislating slavery out of Kansas and the other Territories of the Union by Congress will no longer avail them. Congress has no power in the Territories. That is settled. What was in doubt is in doubt no longer. The supreme law is expounded by the supreme authority and disobedience is rebellion, treason and revolution. The Republican Party henceforth must choose between submission and revolution – loyalty and treason. Stick the source at the top of an A3 sheet
Use the first box to jot down your thought on what the source says/anything you don’t understand
Pick out the provenance/tone/arguments and use your knowledge to decide whether they are valuable<br>
