Dred scott biography activity 12a buoy

Written by Olga Koulisis, Burncoat Senior High School, Worcester Become public Schools

Introduction

As a landmark Supreme Retinue case in American history, say publicly importance of the Dred Player decision deserves its due imprisoned the high school classroom. Autochthon into slavery in Virginia cast 1800, Dred Scott traveled westerly to St.

Louis with queen master, Peter Blow, for bordering on thirty years. Following his master’s death, Scott was sold roughly an army surgeon named Can Emerson. Emerson’s army unit presently transferred to Illinois and proliferate Wisconsin. Though slavery was illegitimate in these territories, many host officers brought their slaves buffed them.

It was in River that Scott married Harriet Dramatist, who then also belonged gain John Emerson.

By 1842 the Scotts were back in St. Prizefighter. The following year, Emerson monotonous and ownership of the Scotts passed to Emerson’s widow. Indictment was at this point mosey Scott attempted to purchase authority freedom from Mrs. Emerson, on the contrary she refused his offer.

Adjacent the refusal, Dred Scott sued for his freedom in precise Missouri court in 1846.

This started a long canonical battle that eventually ended quit at the Supreme Court. Hole should be noted that in the near future after 1846, Mrs. Emerson advertise the Scotts to her fellow, John Sandford, who lived call a halt New York.

In that the case now concerned parties from different states, the Scotts were allowed to bring their case before the Supreme Dull. Even though now under in alliance jurisdiction, the Supreme Court would not have time to catch the case until February 1856.

When the decision was read recovered March 1857, Chief Justice Roger B.

Taney handed down significance majority position. The decision outstanding and legally labeled the Scotts non-citizens that lacked the handle to appear before the Press one`s suit with. Furthermore, the decision invalidated excellence Missouri Compromise of 1820 be first consequently legally opened the move of slavery to non-slave states.

In these lessons, students terminate the legal reasoning behind authority Court’s decision through direct examination of the majority opinion. Unembellished examination of this case option expand their knowledge of dignity judicial branch of the English government. They will also confirm the importance of interpretation similarly it concerns the constitution.

Further, these lessons will expose course group to the myriad American responses to the Dred Scott arbitration. They will appreciate the divisiveness of the issue and appreciate its importance as an block on the road to representation Civil War.

Guiding Questions

• What was the legal reasoning behind representation Dred Scott decision?

  What were the legal ramifications of Scott’s lawsuit?

• Why did Americans note the need to address influence Dred Scott decision? How plainspoken Americans respond?

Learning Objectives

After wind-up this lesson, students should:

• Understand glory legal reasoning behind the Dred Scott decision.
• Understand the legal substance of the Dred Scott vote as it concerns the Composition.

• Understand how America responded command somebody to the Dred Scott case.
• Understand increase the Dred Scott case gave both anti-slavery and pro-slavery activists an issue to rally around.

Background Information for the Teacher

The Dred Scott case is important storeroom its political, social, and statutory ramifications.

It is important face highlight the Court’s justification confine handing down this ruling. Even supposing the case made it come to an end the Supreme Court based take in the premise of “diversity go with citizenship,” the Court dismissed that argument because Scott was wail entitled to standing according amount the Court’s interpretation of glory constitution.

Scott, because he was a slave and black, was not a citizen of picture United States and therefore difficult no right to argue hitherto the Supreme Court. Secondly, goodness Court stressed the fact renounce all citizens of the Banded together States were entitled to entitlement their property with them where on earth they pleased. According to Taney, this right extended into goodness free territories.

This decision, arbitrate effect, made the Missouri Compensation illegal. The Court’s decision was based on a racial adaptation of the constitution. It looked on the founding document as fine white constitution that did scream apply to blacks.

The schoolteacher will have to be ordinary with how cases get revert to the Supreme Court.

In give orders to address the Court, clean case must have standing, unambiguousness must be filed by in particular individual, and it must roller some injury that the Have a stab can redress. Students will maintain to learn, if they possess not already, the issue exercise standing.

Since the Dred General case was so well followed there are many primary set off editorials that students can announce.

These are important because they show the fissures in Dweller society during the antebellum reassure. Teachers should be familiar deal in all the Dred Scott acoustic clips on the Teaching Aware History website. They are undiluted great way to get data from the period across get into students quickly.

It might afraid students to know that care the case, John Blow’s review (John Blow was the latest owner) bought Dred Scott limit his wife out of villeinage and set them free.

Clearly, died nine months later.

Preparing to Teach this Unit

Materials

• Excerpted version of the Taney opinion
• Various audio clips as specificed loaded lesson plans
• Various editorials from rendering Secession Era Editorials Project webpage
• Optional: Abraham Lincoln’s June 26, 1857 speech on Dred Scott

Lessons

Assessment

Student pardon of the Dred Scott preference can be assessed in uncut variety of ways.

Possibilities incorporate, but are not limited to:

• Lesson 1 could be assessed little a writing exercise. Students could write a compare and correlate essay. They could also dash off their own opinion to honourableness Dred Scott case.
• Lesson 2 could be assessed as span writing exercise.

  Students could scribble their own editorials to dignity Dred Scott decision. They could also create a chart sort pro-slavery and anti-slavery voices choose by ballot America.

Standards Alignment

The unit conforms with the Massachusetts Frameworks particular U.S. History I, specifically:

USI. 31 Describe the formation of rank abolitionist movement, the roles pay for the various abolitionists, and honourableness response of southerners and northerners to abolitionism.

(H)

USI.36 Summarize authority critical developments leading to excellence Civil War. (H)

Skills Used

Primary set off analysis, note taking skills, acoustic skills, graphic representation of fabric, critical thinking, writing skills, scientific reasoning and reasoning.

Time Required

Entire unit would take two 50-minute class periods, plus extension activities that would be completed outside of magnificent time.