The Civil War & Reconstruction

#15 DRED SCOTT

Feb 24, 2013 · 28 min
0:00-28:56

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In which we take a look at the Dred Scott case and the fiasco over the Lecompton Constitution, and show how the snowballing negative consequences from those events finally caused the Democratic Party to, once & for all, split along sectional lines. A unified Republican Party will take advantage of that split & win the presidency in 1860.

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