1. Corny Joke of the day
What does a nosey pepper do?

2. Today’s agenda Corny Jokes
Bleeding Kansas: when the you know what hits the fan.
You be the Judge

3. A little background
The argument over the extension of slavery grew stronger and more bitter. It dominated American politics in the mid-1800’s Laws that tried to find compromised ended by causing more violence. The bloodiest battleground of this period was in Kansas.

4. Can a Book cause a war?

5. About the book
Published nine years before the outbreak of the Civil War, Uncle Tom’s cabin focused the nation’s attention on the cruelties of slavery. In the following section, Stowe describes how a slave named Eliza is trying to escape to save her son from being sold.

6. Bleeding Kansas

7. “Stowe is the little lady who made this big war.”
I. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
A. Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
B. Converted many to abolition movement
“Stowe is the little lady who made this big war.”
- Abraham LIncoln

8. II. Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) A. U. S
II. Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) A. U.S. wanted to build a railroad across the Great Plains B. Southern congressmen pledged support if the territory was opened to slavery

9. C. "Unorganized territory" divided into Kansas and Nebraska
1. Territories were free under the Missouri Compromise
2. Slave issue now to be decided by election

10. What strikes you about this?
What can you tell us about what you see here?

11. III. Bleeding Kansas
A. Battleground for popular sovereignty
B. Border Ruffians
1. Missouri residents moved to Kansas to vote
2. Used violence to intimidate anti-slavery Jayhawks

12. C. John Brown
1. Abolitionist who responded to pro- slavery violence
2. "Pottawatomie Massacre"--killed 5 men

13. D. By the end of 1856 more than 200 dead in Kansas
E. Kansas voted for slavery, Nebraska against

14. F. Led to violence in Congress 1
F. Led to violence in Congress 1. Charles Sumner's speech condemned slavery 2. Preston Brooks beat Sumner with his cane

15. IV. Dred Scott (1857)
A. African-American sued for his freedom
B. Supreme Court ruling
1. Scott was still a slave
2. As a slave, he had no right to file a lawsuit
3. Congress could not pass laws about slavery