1. 7Y 01-10-2017 Tuesday Trouble in Kansas
Objective: Describe the causes and effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Agenda:
Main Soft Shell Taco with Fixings
Grab & Go Loaded Potatoe Skin W/ Bacon Bits & Cheese
Sides Bean Salad, Fruit, Snack Bar
Prayer
Do Now: page 482 #1-2 “Connecting Literature to History”, do not copy down the question. Answer using complete sentences.
Lesson on chapter 15.2
Read Chapter 15.2 and answer the questions from page 487 # 1A, 1B, 2A, and 3A
Homework: Finish page 487 #1A and 1B

2. Morning Prayers - Tuesday
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. AMEN
(Join me in offering our day to God.)
My God, I thank you for the gift of another day to praise you.
I offer you all my prayers works, joys, and sufferings today. Amen.
(Let us ask the angels for their intercession on our behalf) Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom His love commits me here, ever this day be at my side, to light to guard, to rule and guide. Amen.
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host - by the power of God - cast into hell, Satan and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
(Let us pray.)
Dear Heavenly Father, grant me the grace to know the difference
between right and wrong, and the courage always to do what is right,
Through Christ, our Lord. AMEN
 In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. AMEN
(Please stand for the pledge)
I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands
one nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.

3. Review
We win the Mexican American War and gain 500,000 square miles of land.
Part of this new territory – CA applies to be a state.
We create the Compromise of 1850 to keep a balance between slave states and free states: the North (free) get CA as a free state and the South (slave) get a stricter fugitive slave law (Fugitive Slave Act). It creates popular sovereignty in the Mexican Cession.

4. Election of 1852
The two main political parties of the time were the Democrats and the Whigs. Both had a hard time picking a candidate for president because they did not want to pick a side between the slave states and the free states.
The Democratic candidate Franklin Pierce won because he promised to honor the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act.
The Whig Party candidate Winfield Scott lost because he did not support the Compromise of 1850 and so southern states did not trust him.
This was a painful defeat for the Whigs.

5. The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas of Illinois wanted to build a railroad to the Pacific Ocean from Chicago, Illinois.
The rest of the Louisiana Territory had to become states first before the railroad could be built through them.
According to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, new states from the Louisiana Territory had to enter as free states.
The South did not like this and said that the railroad should be built through existing southern states.
Stephen Douglas proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act: Kansas and Nebraska can become states and will choose whether they enter as free states or slave states. (popular sovereignty in the new states of Kansas and Nebraska).

6. Reactions to the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Northerners were outraged. Thought it was a plot to turn free territory into slave territory.
Both pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces crossed the border into Kansas to vote.
Many pro-slavery voters from Missouri crossed into Kansas to vote for a pro-slavery government then returned home. As a result, Kansas gained a proslavery legislature.
Anti-slavery forces created their own legislature in Kansas.
Kansas has two governments.
Violence erupts: Sack of Lawrence, John Brown, and Pottawatamie Massacre.
Violence in Congress: Charles Sumner v. Preston Brooks beating.

7. Homework: Finish page 487 #1A, 1B,
For Thursday: 2A, and 3A