kansas- nebraska act who was john brown and was he a crazy? how does the kansas-nebraska act lead to...
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Kansas-Nebraska
Act
Who was John Brown and was he a crazy?
How does the Kansas-Nebraska Act lead to Civil War?
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Review
• How was Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore different?
• What was the Compromise of 1850?– How was it unfair?
• What are abolitionists?• What is the free-soil party?
– Do you think they are for or against slavery?
• What is popular sovereignty?
New President
• Franklin Pierce: Democrat
– What do we remember about Democrats?
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Bloody Kansas• Kansas-Nebraska Act:
– Bill to set up a government in Nebraska territory
– Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois pushed for the bill
– Knew the South didn’t want the North to have another free state
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Divide the territory into Kansas and Nebraska
• People would vote if there is slavery:popular sovereignty
• This bill would make both sides happy and Franklin Pierce signed off.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act• Rumors had spread through the
South that 20,000 Northerners were coming to Kansas
• 1854, thousands of armed Southerners, mostly from Missouri vote for proslavery
• Only half the ballots were cast by registered voters
• Proslavery forces won the election.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
• March 30, 1855 election choose members of the territorial legislature.
• The Missourians, or "Border Ruffians," – Came to vote– 2,905 registered voters – 6,307 actual ballots cast. – 791 voted against slavery.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act• North is mad!!!!!• "Bogus Laws," which incorporated the Missouri slave
code. – huge penalties against anyone who spoke or wrote against
slaveholding;– helped fugitives would be put to death or sentenced to ten
years hard labor
• North set up their own Free State legislature at Topeka.
• Now two governments in Kansas • President Pierce only recognized the proslavery
legislature.
Kansas-Nebraska Act• Most settlers who came wanted
a peaceful life however. . . • Violence erupted throughout
the territory. – David Atchison, a Missouri
senator. Atchison proclaimed the Northerners to be "negro thieves" and "abolitionist tyrants.”
– He encouraged Missourians to defend their institution "with the bayonet and with blood" and, if necessary, "to kill every God-damned abolitionist in the district."
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Kansas-Nebraska Act• Most people who came weren’t abolitionists• They were Free Soil party
– free territory for free white people. – Hated slavery, because. . . .– plantations took over the land and prevented white
working people from having their own homes. – Hated black people didn’t want them in the state – The Free Staters voted 1,287 to 453 to outlaw
black people, slave or free, from Kansas.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Lots of attacks of proslavery people against Free State men– tarred and feathered, – kidnapped,– killed. – May 21, 1856, burned the Free State Hotel,
destroyed two printing presses, and ransacked homes and stores
Now it’s time for
John Brown’s
story
John Brown
• Who was he?
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John Brown
• Who: abolitionist• Where: Harper’s Fairy, West Virginia• When: 1859• Why: needed a violent way to end
slavery, peace was not working• What: took over federal Amory and was
killing to end slavery– Maybe the only way is through war?
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Kansas
• Kansas will eventually apply for a free state but the South will not annex it
• It will not become a state until the South secedes from the union in 1861
Beat Down in the Senate
• In groups you are going to read an article about the Charles Sumner canning.
• You will be drawing a picture and writing a paragraph about the event. (5 sentences and topic sentence.)
• You will be assigned either a Northern perspective or Southern perspective. – Remember back to John Brown resources how
their were two different ways to tell the story!
Sumner-Brooks Affair:
• Charles Sumner was a leading abolitionist, speaking on Bleeding Kansas, insults to Senator Butler (NC)’s lisp
• Congressman Brooks, his cousin, approached Sumner and beat him with a cane until it broke
• Leads to Violence in Congress
Dred Scott vs. Standford
• Dredd Scott was a slave in Missouri
• Moved to Illnionis then Wisconisn with his owner
• He then returend to missouri and his owner died
• Scott argued he should be free because he lived in free state
• Took case to Supreme Court 1857
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Dred Scott
• What do you think the defense will argue?
Dred Scott Case Ruling
• Scott couldn’t sue because he isn’t a citizen
• Supreme Court said slaves are property so their masters can take them anywhere
• How does this upset everything?????
Dred Scott Ruling
• Slavery had to be allowed anywhere people can not be denied their proerpty!!!!
• People are made
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Work Cited
• PBS• http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215469/kansa
s-nebraska_act.htm• http://www.civilwarhome.com/kansasnebrask
a.htm• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0QJ4xhV3
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• http://www.us-coin-values-advisor.com/rare-pennies.html