1. #3 - Why was Kansas bleeding? 10.2

2. DO NOW How did the North challenge the Fugitive Slave Law?
Do you believe Popular Sovereignty is the best solution to the issues of the 1850s? Why or Why not?

3. Election of 1852 Franklin Pierce (D) vs. Winfield Scott (W)
Pierce wins!

4. Douglas Driven to Develop Kansas
Illinois Senator nicknamed “Little Giant”
Senator Stephen Douglas & Popular Sovereignty
Allow citizens to vote and declare their territory slave or non-slave (do what’s popular)
1854 Proposed dividing land west of Iowa into two territories. He wants to build a railroad.

5. 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act
Nebraska (north) and Kansas (south): both to be decided by Popular Sovereignty
Repeal (reverse) the Missouri Compromise
Signed by President Pierce – now a law
Northern states appeal – the contest begins!

6. Bleeding Kansas Fighting in Kansas over slavery Border Ruffians
People from Missouri who cross the border into Kansas to vote illegally for slavery
Jayhawkers
People from Kansas who resist the Border Ruffians

7. 1856 Sack of Lawrence Lawrence, Kansas
800 pro-slavery supporters loot stores and homes of abolitionists

8. Pottawatomie Massacre
Pottawatomie, Kansas
A group of abolitionists led by John Brown
They murder five pro-slavery supporters
The result: more violence where 200 more people would die

9. Violence in Kansas

10. John Brown He was a radical abolitionist
Brown believed that God wanted him to do whatever it takes to abolish slavery

11. “a mistress. who ugly to others, is always lovely to him
“a mistress. . . who ugly to others, is always lovely to him I mean, the harlot, Slavery.”

12. Caning of Charles Sumner
1856 Sen. Charles Sumner (MA) delivering an anti- slavery speech in Congress - verbally attacked Andrew Butler of South Carolina
Butler's nephew Preston Brooks beat Sumner with a cane
Southerners supported Brooks and Northerners condemned him
The gap between South and North widens

13. What is the difference between a “freedom fighter” and a “terrorist”?