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Kansas-Nebraska Act
May 14, 2015
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Take Out:
Today:
- HW!
- Union in Peril:
- writing utensil
- What happened
during "Bleeding
Kansas?"
- notes
Homework: We will check at end of class
(depending on how far we get)
Tensions in Kansas and Nebraska
Kansas-Nebraska Act
popular sovereignty
Stephen Douglas
- Illinois Senator
- worked on
Comp. of 1850
- NOW - wanted to open up new
territories to popular sovereignty
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Douglas hoped to repeal the
Missouri Compromise, and
open up the territories to
popular sovereignty.
1854: Douglas introduces
Kansas-Nebraska Act
- divide land into 2
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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1854: Douglas introduces
Kansas-Nebraska Act
- divide land into 2
- popular sovereignty!
- repeals Missouri
Compromise
1854: Douglas introduces
Kansas-Nebraska Act
- divide land into 2
- popular sovereignty!
- repeals Missouri
Compromise
- becomes LAW in May, 1854
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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soon, settlers began pouring into territories
- farmers
- emigrant aid
groups
- give rifles,
animals, seed,
& farming
equipment to
new migrants
March, 1855: Kansas population ready for
territory vote
- border
ruffians: 1000s
from MO slave
state sneak into
Kansas
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March, 1855: Kansas population ready for
territory vote
- border
ruffians: 1000s
from MO slave
state sneak into
Kansas
fake majority
vote - pro
slavery
candidates
win!
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- proslavery gvt. sets up in Lecompton, KS
- abolitionists set up
gvt. in Topeka, KS
- violence erupts in Kansas over slavery
The Sack of Lawrence - proslavery posse
burns down antislavery town
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- violence erupts in Kansas over slavery
The Pottawatomie Massacre
- John Brown: abolitionist
"a man made of the stuff of saints"
- violence erupts in Kansas over slavery
The Pottawatomie Massacre
- Brown (leading others) attacked proslavery Pottawatomie and killed 5
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- violence erupts in Kansas over slavery
The Pottawatomie Massacre
- will trigger other similar incidents
"Bleeding Kansas"
now a violent
battlefield in a
civil war
Next: violence in the U.S. Senate
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Next: violence in the U.S. Senate
5/19: MA Senator Charles Sumner
delivers "The Crime Against Kansas"
- aimed at SC Senator Andrew Butler
Next: violence in the U.S. Senate
5/22: Preston S. Brooks hits Sumner
with a cane
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The widening gap between the North and
South will continue to rip apart the
nation.
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