1. 7X 01-11-2017 Wednesday Trouble in Kansas
Objective: Describe the causes and effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Agenda:
Prayer
Do Now: What is the difference between the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850?
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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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).

5. 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.

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