HeyJaredCreating America
The documents and speeches that shaped the United States. It is my hope that as you listen to these documents and speeches you will gain an appreciation of what our country was, what it is, and what it hopes to be.
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Episode 28: Lincoln’s “House Divided” | The Speech That Warned America (opens the original)
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In June 1858, Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the most consequential speeches of his political career: his famous “House Divided” speech. Standing before the Illinois Republican State Convention in Springfield, Lincoln warned that the United States could not remain permanently divided between free and slave states. He connected the growing crisis over slavery to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Dred Scott decision, and the political struggle with Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln’s argument was controver
Episode 27: Frederick Douglass Takes on the Dred Scott Decision (opens the original)
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In 1857, the Supreme Court handed down the infamous Dred Scott decision, declaring that Black Americans could not be citizens of the United States and ruling against Congress’s ability to prohibit slavery in the territories. Frederick Douglass, one of the most well known and fiery abolitionist orators of his day and a former slave, had some thoughts. In this episode of the Creating America Podcast, we hear excerpts from Douglass’s powerful speech, “On the Occasion of the Anniversary of the Ameri
Episode 26: Dred Scott: The Supreme Court’s Most Infamous Decision (opens the original)
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Dred Scott v. Sandford, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857, is one of the most consequential and controversial decisions in American history. The Court ruled that Dred Scott, an enslaved man who had lived in free territory, was not a citizen and therefore could not sue in federal court. The decision also declared that Congress did not have the constitutional authority to prohibit slavery in the federal territories, effectively striking down the Missouri Compromise. Rather than settling th
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