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#15 DRED SCOTT

#15 DRED SCOTT

The Civil War & Reconstruction

February 24, 201328m 56s

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Show Notes

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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