Understanding the Impact of the Dred Scott Case
Reactions, significance, and outcomes of the Dred Scott case are explored through various learning activities such as brainstorming, assessing arguments, and evaluating consequences. Students are tasked with analyzing the case's historical context and implications, ultimately leading to a decision on its lasting impact.
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Flipped Learning: Reminder 1. Your revision grid needs completing up until Emergence of the Republican Party (we will do the 1856 election next week). Due in 2 weeks.
Flipped Learning: Due today Include: 1. Who was nominated as presidential candidate by each party and why 2. 1856 campaign 3. 1856 result (try and get a map of the USA that shows these results) Raw votes Percentage Electoral college votes TASK: Compare your findings with your table and add anything you have missed in a green pen
Self Assessment GB3 Rewrite Colour 1 Colour 2 Colour 3 Provenance Points Own Knowledge Links to value/limits (Type, Audience, Date) Point Own Knowledge (Why is this mood/emphasis used) Tone (Mood, emphasis in the source) Links to value/limits Argument Point Own Knowledge (is the argument true?) (What does the source say?) Links to value/limits Write a paragraph that compares your GB3 rewrite to your first attempt. 1. What is different about your rewrite? 2. How does this impact the quality of your answer? 3. What do you still need to work on?
Topic: Dred Scott EXPLAIN EVALUATE KNOW Reactions to the Dred Scott Case The significance of the Dred Scott case The outcome of Dred Scott vs. Sandford
Competition time! Who can remember the most about the United States Supreme Court. You have 2 minutes to brainstorm as much as you can remember GO! KNOW The outcome of Dred Scott vs. Sandford ANALYSE Reactions to the Dred Scott case EVALUATE The significance of the Dred Scott case
What would you do?! You will now be given a pack with 3 documents: 1) The background of the case 2) How the case reached the Supreme Court 3) What you need to consider TASK: Complete the table by finding argument in favour of Dred Scott, and arguments against Dred Scott. Favour of Dred Scott Against Dred Scott KNOW The outcome of Dred Scott vs. Sandford ANALYSE Reactions to the Dred Scott case EVALUATE The significance of the Dred Scott case
Consequences of Dred Scott Using your Impact of the Dred Scott case handout, come to a decision on the following question. How significant was the Dred Scott decision in the destabilisation of relations between the North and the South? KNOW The outcome of Dred Scott vs. Sandford ANALYSE Reactions to the Dred Scott case EVALUATE The significance of the Dred Scott case
With reference to this sources and your understanding of the historical context, is this source to a historian studying the reaction to the Dred Scott decision? Adapted from an article in the newspaper, the Charleston Mercury (South Carolina), entitled The Decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case, and its Tremendous Consequences , March 16th 1857 The Dred Scott decision, in a political party view, is the judgement that Congress has no power and can delegate no power over the question of slavery in the Territories. This decision, at a single blow, smashes the anti-slavery platform of the late great Northern Republican Party into atoms. The policy of legislating slavery out of Kansas and the other Territories of the Union by Congress will no longer avail them. Congress has no power in the Territories. That is settled. What was in doubt is in doubt no longer. The supreme law is expounded by the supreme authority and disobedience is rebellion, treason and revolution. The Republican Party henceforth must choose between submission and revolution loyalty and treason. KNOW The outcome of Dred Scott vs. Sandford ANALYSE Reactions to the Dred Scott case EVALUATE The significance of the Dred Scott case
With reference to this sources and your understanding of the historical context, is this source to a historian studying the reaction to the Dred Scott decision? Adapted from an article in the newspaper, the Charleston Mercury (South Carolina), entitled The Decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case, and its Tremendous Consequences , March 16th 1857 The Dred Scott decision, in a political party view, is the judgement that Congress has no power and can delegate no power over the question of slavery in the Territories. This decision, at a single blow, smashes the anti-slavery platform of the late great Northern Republican Party into atoms. The policy of legislating slavery out of Kansas and the other Territories of the Union by Congress will no longer avail them. Congress has no power in the Territories. That is settled. What was in doubt is in doubt no longer. The supreme law is expounded by the supreme authority and disobedience is rebellion, treason and revolution. The Republican Party henceforth must choose between submission and revolution loyalty and treason. Stick the source at the top of an A3 sheet 1. Use the first box to jot down your thought on what the source says/anything you don t understand Understanding of the Source Provenance Tone 2. Pick out the provenance/tone/arguments and use your knowledge to decide whether they are valuable P: P: Ev: Ev: Ex: Ex: Argument 1 Argument 2 P: P: KNOW The outcome of Dred Scott vs. Sandford ANALYSE Reactions to the Dred Scott case Ev: Ev: EVALUATE The significance of the Dred Scott case Ex: Ex:
