... going to rule on the issues that are dividing the country; slavery in the territories, the Missouri Compromise, etc. (Hume, Video Lecture 5, McPherson, Chapter 7) The Supreme Court's ruling in the Dred Scott case had three main points: first, Scott had no right to sue because he was not ... for the South had become a necessary counter revolution to get out of the union with the new aggressive North. (Hume, Video Lecture 6; and McPherson, Chapter 3) Mary Boykin Chesnut of South Carolina wrote in her diary: December 6 [1860]. To day the election for delagates to the [Secession] Convention...

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