1. The Debate over Slavery leads to Trouble in Kansas
As BOTH slavery and Anti Slavery movements spread into new states, Kansas and Nebraska lead to violence over the issue of slavery.

2. Key Terms and Key People
Popular Sovereignty Wilmot Proviso Sectionalism
Free Soil Party Secede Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Kansas-Nebraska Act Pottawatomie Massacre
Key People
Anthony Burns Harriet Beecher Stowe Preston Brooks
Franklin Pierce Stephen Douglas Charles Sumner
Key Terms and Key People

3. Plan: Extend the Missouri Compromise to California
Problem: Keeps nation Divided and Splits states Apart
Plan: Popular Sovereignty Lets the people vote for slave Status
Problem: Could lead to Voter Fraud and Violence
Plan: The Wilmot Proviso wants to ban Slavery in Land gained from Mexico
Problem: Led to Sectionalism as the Northern controlled government Ignores the south
Plan: Both the Whigs and Democrats ignore the growing issue of slavery
Problem: The Free Soil Party leads to an even more split nation
Plan: Let California enter the Union as a Free State
Problem: Upset the Balance of Free and Slave States which the south feared could end slavery
Mo’ Plans Mo’ Problems

4. If at First you don’t Secede…
Fearing the split of the nation Henry Clay passes the Compromise of 1850 which stated:
California would be a FREE state
The rest of Mexican Gained land would vote for Free/Slave Status
Texas would give up land and The federal government would pay off Mexican debt
Slave Trade would end in Washington DC
Strict Fugitive Slave Laws would be passed
Both Pro and Anti Slavery States would be upset with the Compromise and the South began to talk of Succession
If at First you don’t Secede…

5. The Fugitive Slave Act makes it easier to recapture escaped slaves from the south
Anyone who helped a slave escape could be sent to jail for 6 months or be fined dollars
Judges who decided a slaves status made FIVE dollars if a slave was determined to be free and TEN dollars if they were returned to slavery
The North Began to oppose The Fugitive Slave Act Because they disliked having to help, the judges pay rate, and the free Africans who were sent into slavery
The Arrest of Fugitive Slave Anthony Burns led to Violence in Boston killing a Deputy, Causing many more to Join the Abolition Movement in Massachusetts
As the Resistance to Slavery Grew Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom’s Cabin to help show the Injustice of Slavery
I Did NOT Kill My Wife…

6. The Democrats Nominated Franklin Pierce as president because he promised to honor the Compromise of 1850 and The Fugitive Slave Act which would gain southern votes
The Whigs Passed on Current President Millard Fillmore and Nominated Winfield Scott, a war hero, Who was not trusted by the South
Franklin Pierce won the election of 1852 in a Landslide, putting the Whig Party into danger of Disbanding
The Election of 1852

7. Workin’ on that railroad
Stephen Douglas Proposed a Railroad System that Stretched from Chicago to California which would run through Missouri
In Order to Build the Railroad, the south demanded that land west of Missouri be opened up for slavery
Douglas Proposed, in the Kansas-Nebraska Act, that the Louisiana Territory be split up into slave territory(Kansas) and free territory(Nebraska) eliminating the Missouri Compromise
Congress would approve the Kansas-Nebraska Act with opposition from the north, and the Railroad that was proposed would not be part of the Bill
Workin’ on that railroad

8. Pro and Anti Slavery groups rushed to Kansas in order to vote for the state’s slave status
More than 5000 Pro Slavery Advocates Voted in Kansas and then returned home which created a pro slavery legislature
New Laws made it illegal to question slaveholders rights and approved the death penalty for helping a slave escape
The Anti-Slavery People in Kansas would form their own legislature but be largely ignored, including by the president
Trouble Brewing

9. As TWO governments opposed each other in Kansas the Federal Government only Recognized the Pro Slavery Government
The Pro-Slavery leaders charged the Anti-Slavery Leaders with Treason and moved to Arrest them, but since they had fled the Pro-Slavery leaders destroyed Lawrence Kansas, where they had settled
In Response john Brown led Anti Slavery Leaders to Pottawatomie Creek and killed FIVE Pro-Slavery Men, known as the Pottawatomie Massacre, which threw Kansas into a civil war where 200 people were killed
In Congress, Senator Charles Sumner Criticized pro Slavery Leaders, personally Insulting Senator Andrew Pickens Butler
In Response, Preston Brooks Attacked Sumner With a cane for insulting his Family Member making Brooks a Hero in the South and Sumner a Victim in the North
Them Is Fighting Words

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