1. Opening
Question
The South carried a fear where a day would come where slavery would be threatened…but how did they think it would happen?

2. Day 112 Objectives
Analyze the political, economic and social atmosphere in the USA in the 1850s
Evaluate the causes and effects of the KS-NE Act and Bleeding Kansas
Analyze the platform of the Republican Party and their impact in the Election of 1856

3. 1854…South still upset about something 

4. 2a. Kan-Neb Act Popular Sovereignty… Creator = 
Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas…what party?
His motives? (think big)
Wants to be President
but Douglas is from a Northern State. He needs support from where/whom?
Trans-Continental RR
Believes in an important principle too…
Democrat
Popular Sovereignty…

5. Missouri Compromise Line says KS+NE territories must create what kinds of states?…
KS-NE Act changes that…give the territories what?
Free States

6. b. Popular Sovereignty South North
KS & NE people can vote what kind of state they want to be
Think Federalism… who is strengthened/ weakened?
Who is 
Why?
Who is 
South
North

7. c. Effects & Reactions? What happens to 
Only gains little support!
Angers some members in his own party? Who?
What is the overall impact on the USA? More…
Tension
Division
Anti-Slavery North mobilizes!!!

8. South South 1850’s Scorecard
________1850 – Compromise of 1850 ________1854 – Kansas-Nebraska Act ________1854 – Birth of the Republican Party ________1856 – “Bleeding Kansas” ________1856 – Violence in the US Senate ________1856 – Election of 1856 ________1857 – Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision ________1858 – Lincoln vs Douglas for IL Senate ________1859 – Harpers Ferry and John Brown ________1860 – Election of 1860
South
South
1850’s Scorecard

9. Kansas, you look just like..
4. Bleeding
Kansas, you look just like..
Popular Sovereignty causes a problem…
Kansas is split in many ways…2…

10. Summer of 1856… Blood on the hands of both sides
John Brown brutally murders 5 men
Came to Kansas to “strike terror in the hearts of the pro-slavery people.”

11. Bleeding Kansas Impact
Increased…
Will we ever be able to add another slave state peacefully?
What are we previewing to the rest of the USA?

12. Story #5 in 1856…
????
???

13. South South 1850’s Scorecard
________1850 – Compromise of 1850 ________1854 – Kansas-Nebraska Act ________1854 – Birth of the Republican Party ________1856 – “Bleeding Kansas” ________1856 – Violence in the US Senate ________1856 – Election of 1856 ________1857 – Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision ________1858 – Lincoln vs Douglas for IL Senate ________1859 – Harpers Ferry and John Brown ________1860 – Election of 1860
South
South
1850’s Scorecard

14. 3a. Death of a political party
the Whig
3a. Death of a political party
We never got tough enough on slavery…

15. b. Birth of a party too

16. Republican Party Forms in 1854
There are 2  moments that help create the party
1850…
1854…
Republican Party

17. Republican Party Platform in 1854 Slavery… Moral evil
What did they want to do to it? They won’t all agree!!
Abolish it
Limit it…don’t let it spread

18. What parties did the Republican
Party welcome/absorb?
Leftover Whigs
Lincoln
Free-Soilers
Followed same strong anti- slavery principles
Anti-Slavery Democrats…
Also became  in the 1850s

19. Why
is the
creation
of the
Repub
Party
a big
deal?

20. Story 6 = Election of 1856 vs

25. South South North South 1850’s Scorecard
________1850 – Compromise of 1850 ________1854 – Kansas-Nebraska Act ________1854 – Birth of the Republican Party ________1856 – “Bleeding Kansas” ________1856 – Violence in the US Senate ________1856 – Election of 1856 ________1857 – Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision ________1858 – Lincoln vs Douglas for IL Senate ________1859 – Harpers Ferry and John Brown ________1860 – Election of 1860
South
South
North
South
1850’s Scorecard