1. Senator Stephen Douglas
Chairman on the committee on territories.
He proposed to organize the territory west of Missouri and Iowa as the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.

2. Union Pacific Railroad
Railroad companies were eager to start operations in the new territory
Wanted RR to extend Chicago- California.
Offered land at cheap prices to attract people to move west

3. Douglas’ Proposal
1854-Organize the tens of millions of acres of farmland as the Kansas and Nebraska territories.
Passed in the House- 107 to 49
Against in the Senate- 23 to 17
Repeal Missouri Compromise
Popular sovereignty

4. Violence in Congress

5. Caning of Sumner

6. 1854 Map of the United States

7. 1854 map of the United States

8. Sacking of Lawrence
May 1856 – 800 slavery supporters attacked the town of Lawrence, the antislavery capital.

9. John Brown John Brown retaliates
He vowed to, “strike terror in the hearts of the proslavery people”
He believed God had chosen him to end slavery.
He and his 4 sons kill 5 supporters of slavery.
Never arrested for these murders. Northerners support his actions.

10. John Brown

11. Last Moments John Brown

12. Bleeding Kansas More violence follows
Kansas known as “Bleeding Kansas” or the Civil War in Kansas
October 1856 the new territorial Governor used 1300 federal troops to stop the fighting.