Dred Scott

Flipped Learning: Reminder Your revision grid needs completing up until Emergence of the Republican Party (we will do the 1856 election next week). Due in 2 weeks. Extend deadline because of snow to two weeks from this lesson?

Flipped Learning: Due today 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

Self Assessment GB3 Rewrite Colour 1 Colour 2 Colour 3 Provenance Points (Type, Audience, Date) Own Knowledge Links to value/limits Tone Point (Mood, emphasis in the source) Own Knowledge (Why is this mood/emphasis used) Argument Point (What does the source say?) Own Knowledge (is the argument true?) Colour coded (intro, main body, conclusion) 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?

Topic: Dred Scott EXPLAIN EVALUATE KNOW The outcome of Dred Scott vs. Sandford EXPLAIN Reactions to the Dred Scott Case EVALUATE The significance of the Dred Scott case

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! KNOW The outcome of Dred Scott vs. Sandford ANALYSE Reactions to the Dred Scott case EVALUATE The significance of the Dred Scott case

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. Favour of Dred Scott Against Dred Scott KNOW The outcome of Dred Scott vs. Sandford ANALYSE Reactions to the Dred Scott case EVALUATE The significance of the Dred Scott case

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? KNOW The outcome of Dred Scott vs. Sandford ANALYSE Reactions to the Dred Scott case EVALUATE The significance of the Dred Scott case

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. KNOW The outcome of Dred Scott vs. Sandford ANALYSE Reactions to the Dred Scott case EVALUATE The significance of the Dred Scott case

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 Understanding of the Source Provenance P: Ev: Ex: Tone Argument 1 Argument 2 KNOW The outcome of Dred Scott vs. Sandford ANALYSE Reactions to the Dred Scott case EVALUATE The significance of the Dred Scott case