Contrast the goals of Dred Scott and John Brown. ( 1852-1859)

The answer below is what they each did and things like that.

John Brown:  

-Event in which John brown seized the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry (Virginia)

- freed and arm the enslaved people in the area

- begin a rebellion against slavery

-North: Martyr of Noble cause

-South: Terrorist

-Morally Justified: Yes

-killed on behalf of all enslaved people

-Slavery is morally wrong, he needed to take action to make any change

Dred Scott:

-I have recently heard the court's ruling on the Dred Scott Case

-not guarantee freedom to a free slave-wrong

-taken into free territory by his owner- he shall be granted his freedom.

-Any other slave in these free territories had their freedom, why shouldn't Mr. Scott?

- tension over slavery

-ruling was a choice of personal morals,

-This decision will only pull the north and south farther

-State court ruled Scott a free man, Supreme Court not (increase tension)

-Sign of an unstable relationship between state and federal gov.

-Instead of solving the issue of slavery, the decision itself has become an issue in the territories

it provided for selection of government employees through competitive examinations. it also made it unlawful to fire or demote covered employees for political reasons or to require them to give political service or payment, and it set up a civil service commission to enforce the law.

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is slave