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#15 DRED SCOTT
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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Feb 24, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In which we take a look at the Dred Scott case and the fiasco over the Lecompton Constitution, and show how the snowballing negative consequences from those events finally caused the Democratic Party to, once & for all, split along sectional lines. A unified Republican Party will take advantage of that split & win the presidency in 1860.
Released:
Feb 24, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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