#3 - Why was Kansas bleeding? 10.2
DO NOW How did the North challenge the Fugitive Slave Law? Do you believe Popular Sovereignty is the best solution to the issues of the 1850s? Why or Why not?
Election of 1852 Franklin Pierce (D) vs. Winfield Scott (W) Pierce wins!
Douglas Driven to Develop Kansas Illinois Senator nicknamed “Little Giant” Senator Stephen Douglas & Popular Sovereignty Allow citizens to vote and declare their territory slave or non-slave (do what’s popular) 1854 Proposed dividing land west of Iowa into two territories. He wants to build a railroad.
1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act Nebraska (north) and Kansas (south): both to be decided by Popular Sovereignty Repeal (reverse) the Missouri Compromise Signed by President Pierce – now a law Northern states appeal – the contest begins!
Bleeding Kansas Fighting in Kansas over slavery Border Ruffians People from Missouri who cross the border into Kansas to vote illegally for slavery Jayhawkers People from Kansas who resist the Border Ruffians
1856 Sack of Lawrence Lawrence, Kansas 800 pro-slavery supporters loot stores and homes of abolitionists
Pottawatomie Massacre Pottawatomie, Kansas A group of abolitionists led by John Brown They murder five pro-slavery supporters The result: more violence where 200 more people would die
Violence in Kansas
John Brown He was a radical abolitionist Brown believed that God wanted him to do whatever it takes to abolish slavery
“a mistress. who ugly to others, is always lovely to him “a mistress. . . who ugly to others, is always lovely to him. . . . I mean, the harlot, Slavery.”
Caning of Charles Sumner 1856 Sen. Charles Sumner (MA) delivering an anti- slavery speech in Congress - verbally attacked Andrew Butler of South Carolina Butler's nephew Preston Brooks beat Sumner with a cane Southerners supported Brooks and Northerners condemned him The gap between South and North widens
What is the difference between a “freedom fighter” and a “terrorist”?