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Which individuals played a direct role in the onset of the civil war?

Nat Turner, Dred Scott, and John Brown


How did blacks shape the civil war?

The slave revolts, such as Nat Turner, who was a slave preacher, had been considered a model slave, obedient and respectful by his White owner in Southampton, Virginia. That is, until Turner organized a band of slaves and, recruiting more as he went along, terrorizing the people of southern Virginia. Turner started with the family who owned the plantation on which he was a slave. Turner killed some 60 Whites, sparing no one, regardless of age or sex. During the hunt for Turner and his followers, nearly 100 blacks were killed as well. Eventually, Turner and about 20 of his followers were brought to trial, and they were executed. Harriet Ross Tubman, the "Black Moses," who worked with the Underground Railroad, was a threat to the South. A former slave, she returned to help others escape from the chains of slavery (including her family). From 1850, until the beginning of the American Civil War, Harriet Tubman helped some 3,000 slaves escape to the North and helped some slaves to escape to Canada. Dred Scott, was a slave who lived in Missouri. His owner was a military officer, who was transferred from various posts. For a period of time, Scott was a slave in the free territory of Nebraska, and in the free state of Illinois. After the officer died, his widow gave Scott to her brother, a Massachusetts abolitionist. They decided to sue for Scott's freedom, since he lived in free regions of the country. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled against both men. Black soldiers fought in the Civil War beginning in 1862. This was because the Union needed more soldiers to defeat the Confederacy.


Who said the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Francis Scott Keys wrote it in the the national anthem


Who is dred Scott did he win or loose is case?

Dred Scott was born a slave in Virginia between 1795 and 1800. In 1846 he sued his owner for his freedom. The lawsuit was dismissed. In 1853, he sued again, this time in federal court. The defendant was John Sanford, the executor of John Emerson's estate (Emerson was Scott's owner). The Supreme Court found in favor of Sanford by a vote of 7-2.


How did Dred Scott CASE affect the civil war?

The Dred Scott Decision helped lead to the Civil War because it caused fighting between the North and South. The North was angry because people in the north had decided not to allow slavery in their states, and the Dred Scott decision allowed slaves to be brought into their states. The Dred Scott decision basically said that if a slave was brought to a free state they were still a slave because they were property. so even a free state wasn't really free. Most southerners were happy with the decision because it allowed them to take slaves with them to free states and territories and reinforced the idea that slaves had no rights as U.S. citizens. Dred Scott's case caused more trouble between the North and South.