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* Jefferson Davis | * Jefferson Davis | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Dred Scott decision|1857 written by Chief Justice Roger Taney of Maryland, the decision held that Scott, a slave who sued for freedom when his owner took him from the slave state Missouri to Illinois; Taney ruled that blacks are not citizens and thereby have no constitutional protections; the decision also invalidated the Missouri Compromise, stating that it violated slave owners' property rights; the Taney Court thought the ruling would settle the problem of slavery, but it instead inflamed it}}</ul> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Dred Scott decision|1857 written by Chief Justice Roger Taney of Maryland, the decision held that Scott, a slave who sued for freedom when his owner took him from the slave state Missouri to Illinois; Taney ruled that blacks are not citizens and thereby have no constitutional protections; the decision also invalidated the Missouri Compromise, stating that it violated slave owners' property rights; the Taney Court thought the ruling would settle the problem of slavery, but it instead inflamed it}}</ul> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:John Brown| a radical puritan and abolitionist from Connecticut who had the messianic belief that he was an instrument of God to free the slaves; he was a prominent agitator in "Bleeding Kansas" of the late 1850s to oppose expansion of slavery there; in 1859 he led the raid on Harpers Ferry (see below) to seize weapons and start a slave rebellion; Brown became famous for his raid and inspired hatred and resentment in the south and anti-slave fervor in the north; Union soldiers frequently sang "John Brown's Body" while they marched during the war}}</ul></li> | |||
* Kansas-Nebraska Act | * Kansas-Nebraska Act | ||
* Lincoln-Douglas Debates | * Lincoln-Douglas Debates | ||