Chapter 15.2 Vocabulary/Two Column Notes Trouble in Kansas

Election of 1852 Franklin Pierce: Democrat/from New Hampshire ●Pierce became the democratic presidential nominee for the 1852 election ●Pierce promised to honor the Compromise of 1850 and enforce the Fugitive Slave Act (made South happy) ●As a result Pierce won the 1852 election Winfield Scott: Whig/Did not fully support the Compromise of 1850 *Whig party: Supported strengthening the country through a national system vs a state system

The Kansas- Nebraska Act ●Tensions over slavery and sectionalism will be revived all because of a “Choo Choo” Douglas and the Railroad Stephen Douglas: Illinois State Senator/supported building a railroad from Chicago to the Pacific Ocean ●Louisiana Purchase would need to be turned into federal territory ●Southerners wanted a railroad from New Orleans to southern California ●Douglas makes a deal with some southern senators

The Kansas- Nebraska Act Two New Territories The Deal made by Douglas in January 1854: Kansas-Nebraska Act: a plan that would divide the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories -- Kansas and Nebraska -- and allow the people in each territory to decide the question of slavery. ●This plan would eliminate the Missouri Compromise line ●Northerners were angry over such an idea ●The K-N Act passed both houses of congress on May 30, 1854

The Kansas- Nebraska Act Kansas Divided ●Kansas ended up having two legislatures: one proslavery and antislavery ●Both proslavery and antislavery folks showed up to vote at the Kansas territorial legislature in March 1855 ●The antislavery camp was located in Topeka, about 25 miles away from the proslavery camp in Lecompton ●President Pierce only acknowledged the proslavery legislature/government

Bleeding Kansas ●By April, 1856 tensions rise as people wonder which government (pro or anti slavery) is in charge Attack on Lawrence ●May 1856 pro slavery grand jury charge antislavery government with treason ●800 pro slavery men attack the town of Lawrence: set fires, looted buildings, destroyed printing presses ●Event became known as the Sack of Lawrence

Bleeding Kansas John Brown’s Response ●Sack of Lawrence upset John Brown as he had moved there in 1855 Pottawatomie Massacre: May 24, 1856 Brown and his men killed five pro slavery men in Kansas ●A civil war ensued in Kansas/200 people were killed ●In 1856 a new territorial governor helped restore order

Brooks Attacks Sumner Bleeding Kansas Charles Sumner: Anti slavery senator from Massachusetts/personally insulted Andrew Picken Butler, a pro slavery senator from South Carolina Preston Brooks: Representative/relative of Butler/used his walking cane to beat Sumner unconscious in the senate chambers ●Southerners praised his actions but northerners were outraged/called him “Bully Brooks” ●Brooks payed a $300 fine/it was three years before Sumner could return to the senate