1. Bleeding Kansas and Pre-Civil War Politics

2. What did John Doy’s experience show about conditions in Kansas in the 1850s?
Dr. John Doy was a physician and abolitionist who in January 1859 agreed to take 13 escaped slaves from Lawrence, Kansas, to freedom in Iowa. Just 12 miles out of Lawrence, the wagons driven by Doy and his son were stopped by slave hunters. Doy was arrested and taken to Missouri where he was convicted of slave stealing and sentenced to five years in prison. Before his sentence started, a group of antislavery Kansans broke him out of jail and returned him to a hero’s welcome in Lawrence.

3. Missouri Compromise

4. Compromise of 1850

5. Beginnings of Trouble Gadsden Purchase Stephen Douglas
Build a railroad
Stephen Douglas
Manifest Destiny
Transcontinental Railroad starting in Chicago
Organize Kansas and Nebraska
Needs Southern support

6. Franklin Pierce
“We Polked you in 1844, we will Pierce you in 1852” – Democrats
“Handsome” Frank
Mexican War
Alcoholic
lost son to train crash
Depressed
Tool of the South
Alienated Democrats

7. Kansas – Nebraska Act Douglas promises to repeal Missouri Compromise
Two New Territories (Kansas/Nebraska)
Popular Sovereignty in the territories
WHAT PROBLEMS DOES THIS PRESENT????
All new territories essentially open to slavery
Franklin Pierce – 14th President
Passes it under pressure
Splits Dem. Party

8. Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854

9. Kansas-Nebraska Act
Why would New England abolitionists move to Kansas?
Why would southern slave owners move to Kansas?
What would happen within Kansas between opposing factions?

10. Failed Compromise of 1850
Read the document in Google Classroom and for each section answer the following question:
How did this event tear the nation apart?

11. “Bleeding Kansas” Nebraska was going to be Free People flood to Kansas
North – no slavery – settle there
New England Emigrant Aid Society – Anti-Slave
“Border Ruffians” from Missouri
2,905 registered voters to 6,307 actual ballots cast. Only 791 voted against slavery – Rigged the election

12. Voter Fraud
A pro-slavery delegate was elected as the result of voter fraud
Voter fraud continued in March 1855 during voting for the territorial legislature
There were twice as many votes cast as voters
Legislature—36 pro-slavery & 3 free soil people elected
Legislature meets and passes a strict slave code

13. “Bogus Laws” Cant speak or write against Slavery
Assist fugitive (escaped slave)
Put to Death
10 years hard labor
Northerners set up their own government in Topeka

14. Government Splits Free-Soilers refused to accept the new government
They elected an anti-slavery governor & legislature and set up their own government
1856—2 governments were passing and enforcing laws

15. Sack of Lawrence President Pierce doesn’t support free government
Gives Ruffians the green light to attack
Destroy printing press
Burn the governor’s house
Aimed cannons on hotels

16. The Sack of Lawrence
1855—Lawrence , KS was the center of anti-slavery activity
November 1855—shootings of pro-slavery people brought 1,500 Missourians across the border
Federal troops waited for the President’s order to keep peace.
No order was issued.
President Franklin Pierce (NH) seemed to be influenced by pro-slavery elements
May 21—pro-slavery sheriff and 800 men road into Lawrence to arrest free- soilers

17. John Brown: Terrorist, Hero, or Man of God

18. John Brown Was an abolitionist
Participated in the Underground Railroad
Brown followed his sons to Kansas in 1855
They hoped to obtain land and help make the territory free
Brown was outraged by the Sack of Lawrence

19. Pottawatomie Massacre
John Brown
“God chose him to end slavery”
5 pro slavery men dragged from home and hacked to death
Starts Guerilla warfare
By October 1856 – 200 people had died in “Bleeding Kansas”
Franklin Pierce did nothing

20. Is there a Difference???

21. “Bleeding Sumner” Sen. Charles Sumner "The Crime Against Kansas."
attacked slavery and the South
Conspiracy – Sen. Andrew Butler
S.C. Rep. Preston Brooks (Butler’s Neighbor )
Beats Sumner with his cane
Sumner was injured severely
brain damage
South’s brutality
 Preston Brooks was hailed as a Southern hero
“HIT HIM AGAIN”

22. Who do you blame most?

23. Birth of the Republican Party

24. What are some “hot button” political issues today?
SLAVERY

25. Evolution of Political Parties

26. The Know – Nothing Party
“American Party”
Nativists
Anti-Catholics
Anti-Immigrants
German and Irish
Candidates for President
1852 – None
1856 – Millard Fillmore

27. Free Soil Party Opposed Slavery Opposed spread of slavery
Opposed Compromise 1850
Opposes Kansas- Nebraska Act
Candidates for President
1852 – John Hale
None

28. Democrats In favor of opening territories to slavery
In favor of popular sovereignty
In favor of the Compromise of 1850
In favor of Kansas – Nebraska Act
Candidates for President
1852 – Franklin Pierce (won)
James Buchanan (won)

29. Republican Party Northern Whigs (unhappy) Know-Nothings
Northern Democrats (unhappy)
Free-Soilers
Opposed slavery
Opposed spread of slavery
Opposed Compromise 1850
Opposed Kansas – Nebraska
Candidates for president
1852 – None
1856 – John C. Fremont

30. 1856 Presidential Election
√ James Buchanan John C. Frémont Millard Fillmore Democrat Republican Know-Nothing

31. 1856 Election Results – Stops Secession

32. Why Buchanan Won Buchanan won the election for 2 main reasons:
1) The North’s heavily immigrant population was repelled by the Know-Nothing’s nativism
2) The Democrats painted the Republicans as extremists on the issue of slavery
Buchanan was the voters’ choice in both the north and south
Fremont won all the states of the Upper North

33. James Buchanan Compromise Candidate “Doughface”
In Europe during this time
“Doughface”
Northern who sympathized with South
Only bachelor President

34. William Rufus DeVane King (13th Vice President)

35. I am now “solitary and alone,” having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone; and should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection.