1. Today’s Schedule – 12/07/09 Warm-Up 10.4 Part 1 PPT: The System Fails
HW: Dred Scott Supreme Court Case Analysis
DUE FRIDAY, 12/11/09
Warm-Up: (1) Make a list of controversial issues in the U.S. that have led people/groups to violence. (2) Why do you think people use violence to achieve their political goals?

2. Revisiting the Kansas-Nebraska Act
What was the Act?
Who was responsible for proposing the Act?
What were his reasons?

3. Deciding for Kansas
Abolitionist groups in New England sent over 1,200 people to Kansas in 1854 to help the fight in preventing Kansas from becoming a slave state
Called “free soilers”
Proslavery groups in Missouri organized secret societies to oppose free soiler
Would illegally cross into Kansas to vote

4. Opposing Capitals By 1855 Kansas had two camps
Topeka was an antislavery capital
Lecompton was a proslavery capital

5. Violence Erupts
On May 21, 1856 a group of proslavery Southerners and a federal marshal looted antislavery homes and offices in Lawrence, Kansas (center for free soilers)
John Brown (evangelical who believed he was chosen by God to end slavery) led a response
On May 24th he took his sons to a proslavery settlement, dragged five men out of bed and killed them in front of their families
These actions ignited a summer of rioting called “Bleeding Kansas”

6. Election of 1856 Nominees Buchanan wins Democrats: James Buchanan
Supported Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Solid Southern support
Republicans: John C. Fremont
Wanted Kansas to be a free state
Solid Northern support
Know Nothings: President Millard Fillmore
Buchanan wins
Promised to stop “the agitation of the slavery issue”
Wanted the Supreme Court to settle the issue

7. Dred Scott v. Sanford Complete a Supreme Court Case Analysis
Due Friday
Use page 365 in your textbook and previously assigned websites
Be prepared to discuss on Friday

8. Lecompton Constitution
Proslavery group in Kansas elected officials to write a constitution required to become a state
Most people in Kansas did not support slavery and refused to vote to approve the constitution because no options were provided to prohibit slavery
Buchanan approved it
Congress did not and returned it to the people of Kansas for another vote
This time is was overwhelmingly defeated

9. Video Notes Title: Mid-1800s Sections (3 notes from each section)
3/5 Compromise
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act