The Sectional Crisis: “Bleeding Kansas” Mr. Bach Hudson High School Accelerated United States History
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
The Birth of the Republican Party Northern Whigs Northern Democrats American Party (“Know Nothings”) Free Soilers
Republican Party Platform Agricultural development of the West (Market Economy) Internal improvements to aid the economy Land-Grants (Homestead) Tariffs for Northern industry Lincoln the Rail Splitter “Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men”
“Bleeding Kansas” John Brown – The Bible in one hand, a gun in the other
The Slave Power Reveals Itself Preston Brooks (SC) canes Charles Sumner (MA) on the Senate Floor