#15 DRED SCOTT

The Civil War & Reconstruction

Richard Youngdahl

History

4.7 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2013

⏱️ 27 minutes

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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, thanks for downloading episode 15 of our Civil War podcast.
0:24.1	My name is Rich.
0:25.5	And I'm Tracy.
0:26.5	Hello y'all.
0:27.5	Welcome to the podcast.
0:29.4	Recently on the podcast, we talked about the presidential election of 1856 and how
0:34.1	James Buchanan was elected to be the 15th president of the United States.
0:39.6	We said that in the slave states Buchanan won the contest against the no-nothing candidate
0:44.4	Millard Fillmore, but then Buchanan lost the contest in the free states to John C. Fremont
0:50.6	through Republican Party's first ever presidential candidate.
0:54.5	In the north, Buchanan carried only the five states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Illinois,
1:00.8	Indiana, and also California, while Fremont carried 11 others.
1:06.0	The New Orleans Daily Crescent newspaper said the northern voting results were a stunning
1:11.3	shock.
1:12.7	The Crescent went on to say that Fremont had won the north based on a platform, quote,
1:17.8	which would inflict a measurable degradation upon the southern people.
1:22.2	End quote.
1:23.8	Even though they'd won the contest, the Democratic Party and the South had been well and truly
1:28.5	scared by the election results.
1:31.6	Immediately after the election, Republicans started to look ahead to 1860 with anticipation
1:37.0	because they realized that if they could add Pennsylvania and either Illinois or Indiana
1:42.1	to the block of states already captured, they'd win the next presidential election.
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