1. Kansas Nebraska Act 1854

3. The Railroad
The adventures of Lewis and Clark did not find a passage through the mountains.
Agriculture needed to supply railroad with reasons to move west.
If Nebraska and Kansas become territories then people settling those territories were entitled to government protection.
Farmers are safe to move west.

4. Why Kansas and Nebraska?
Missouri Compromise is made void and unconstitutional.
Two territories established with the hopes that popular sovereignty would make it so one would be slave and one free.

5. The Great Race
Northerners and Southerners raced to populate the territories
Popular Sovereignty provides extra incentive to emigrate.
The giant population of the North and greater opportunity entices more northerners than southerners.
Soon both sides started arming themselves in anticipation for war.

6. Bleeding Kansas
Charles Sumner gives an anti-slavery speech on the congressional floor and in return Preston Brooks attacked him
Fighting escalates far beyond Kansas

7. John Brown
John Brown led a group of men in Kansas Territory on to attack at a proslavery settlement at Osawatomie Creek. During the night of May 24, the group, which included four of Brown's sons, led five pro-slavery men from their homes and hacked them to death with broadswords
He was hanged in 1859 after a raid on the south.

8. Battle of Osawatomie
John Brown and his followers fought a group of 400 proslavery men
Hostilities continued for 2 months
In all 56 people were killed

9. Results of the Kansas Nebraska Act
Turned the country to almost certain war
Nullified both the Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850
Deeply divided the Whig and Democratic parties
Gave rise to the Republican Party
Kansas admitted to the Union as a free state in 1861 prior to the start of the civil war