Abraham Lincoln in a speech after the ruling said:
“…We shall lie down pleasantly dreaming that the people of Missouri are on the verge of
making their State free, and we shall awake to the reality instead that the Supreme Court
has made Illinois a slave State.”
5.How did John Brown’s attack on Harper’s Ferry increase
tensions between the North and the South?
Northern abolitionists honored his effort to end slavery.
Southerners were enraged by his raid on a U.S. military
base. And saw the reaction by Northerners as more proof
that the North wanted to end slavery and that the North
could not be trusted on this issue.
6. How did the opinion in the Dred Scott case threaten the idea of
popular sovereignty?
See #4 above.