1. Kansas-Nebraska Act Standard 8.68

2. KANSAS AND NEBRASKA ACT
Build a transcontinental connecting California to the East Coast either in the South or North
Stephen Douglas wanted the railroad built in the North
Proposed a plan that Kansas and Nebraska territories be opened up to slavery in return for building the railroad in the North.
Popular Sovereignty

3. Popular Sovereignty
People will vote to decide if they are free or slave

6. Border Ruffians
People from Missouri (slave state) who crossed into Kansas to vote.

7. And the winner is. . . . Slavery  Two capitals formed:
Anti-slavery: Lecompton
Pro-slavery: Lawrence

8. BLEEDING KANSAS First violent outbreaks between north/south.
Map Bleeding Kan
BLEEDING KANSAS
Kansas/Nebraska Act led to several acts of violence between pro-slavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers.
First violent outbreaks between north/south.
First battles of the Civil War begin in Kansas in 1856.
Over 200 killed
(Led by John Brown)‏
Attacks by free-states
Attacks by pro-slavery states

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10. Sumner/Brooks Affair
Standard 8.68

11. Bleeding Sumner Video Clip

13. Republican Party
Whigs
Free Soilers
Democrats

14. Republican Party
Started in 1854 as a reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Republicans main goal: stop the spread of slavery in the new western territories.

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