1. LF US History 3-23-2016 ObjectiveAgenda Kansas Nebraska Act Attack on Charles Sumter Dred Scott vs Sanford Bellwork: Tell me Everything you have learned so far this week. Lecture Video Clip Assignment

2. Kansas-Nebraska Act Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)- Stephen Douglas proposed: Popular Sovereignty: Voting

3. Feelings on the Acts Southern leaders supported it because they assumed Missouri farmers with slaves would move across the border. Northerners were unhappy with the decision. ◦Said Missouri Compromise had already banned slavery in the area and that this repealed that act. ◦Some protested by openly challenging the Fugitive Slave Act

4. The Crisis Turns Violent Kansas was now open for settlement. ◦Antislavery settlers moved from New England ◦Proslavery groups also came in  Border Ruffians – gangs that battled anti-slavery forces 1855 Kansas held elections ◦Border Ruffians ◦Successfully elected a proslavery legislature

5. “Bleeding Kansas” Proslavery men destroyed abolishinist homes/businesses John Brown Abolitionist Looking to get even ◦He and six men murdered five proslavery settlers. ◦Harpers Ferry, Virginia

6. Violence in the Senate Charles Sumner of MA spoke against slavery and Andrew Butler. A few days later, Butler’s nephew Preston Brooks marched into Congress with a cane and beat Sumner unconscious. People looked to Supreme Court for help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu T3kBw17o0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu T3kBw17o0

7. Stephen Douglas Quote Referring to Kansas-Nebraska Act ◦“ The struggle for freedom was forever banished from the halls of Congress to the Western Plains.” ◦Do you agree or disagree? Why?

8. The Dred Scott Case Dred Scott Case (1857) – 1. Born in Missouri as a slave. 2. Moved to Wi w/owner (FREE) 3. Owner Died 4. Dred moved back to Missouri Perspectives 1. South: Still a slave 2. North Abolitionist: Free (once free always free)

9. The Dred Scott Decision Dred Scott v. Sandford ◦1. Not a citizen. ◦2. Congress Shall Not: Ban Slavery in any territory  Made Missouri Compromise unconstitutional  VICTORY FOR SLAVERY

10. Be Ready Missouri Compromise 1820 (First Event Dealing w/expansion) Line Clay Compromise of 1850 1. Cal=‘s Free 2. Fugitive Slave Act Kansas Nebraska Act (New States) 1. Popular Sovereignty 2. Border Ruffians Wilmot Proviso 1. No Slavery in New Lands (Contain it) 2. White West (Racist) John Brown (Abolitionist) 1. Harpers Ferry 2. Violence Dred Scott vs. Sanford 1. African Americans= NOT CITIZENS 2. Congress Shall Not: BAN Slavery in any territory.