History Homework Page 3

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.

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