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The Dred Scott decision alarmed the North, because it appeared to mean that slavery was protected by the Constitution, and that no state could declare itself to be free soil.

The John Brown raid alarmed the South, because it looked as though the Abolitionists were planning to arm the slaves and provoke a full-scale rebellion.

Together, these two incidents drove the two sides further apart, and raised the temperature of the debate.

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