We covered content addressing 'popular sovereignty' - the political position that people living in the state should be allowed to vote to decide about slavery. This lead to debates between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln, who was then not well known. Douglas was a strong proponent of popular sovereignty and Lincoln argues against the expansion of slavery and centered his campaign on the immorality of it, We also read how the Supreme Court case about an enslaved man, Dred Scott fueled the abolitionist cause and learned the reasons why the Supreme Court ruled against Scott.