SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
DRED SCOTT
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The decision gave rise to the Know-Nothing Party, which won the election.
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The decision gave rise to the Free Soil Party, which won the election.
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The decision strengthened the Democratic Party, which won the election.
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The decision strengthened the Republican Party, which won the election.
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Detailed explanation-1: -How did the Dred Scott decision affect the election in 1860? It gave rise to the Know-Nothing Party, which won the election.
Detailed explanation-2: -Missouri’s Dred Scott Case, 1846-1857. In its 1857 decision that stunned the nation, the United States Supreme Court upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Dred Scott Decision outraged abolitionists, who saw the Supreme Court’s ruling as a way to stop debate about slavery in the territories. The divide between North and South over slavery grew and culminated in the secession of southern states from the Union and the creation of the Confederate States of America.
Detailed explanation-4: -How would the early Republican Party have felt about the Dred Scott decision? It would have supported it because it abolished slavery.