1. SSUSH9 The student will identify key events, issues, and individuals relating to the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War.
a. Explain the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the failure of popular sovereignty, Dred Scott case, and John Brown’s Raid.

2. Kansas-Nebraska Act
Signed in 1854, the Act, introduced by Stephen Douglas:
- repealed the Missouri Compromise (what was that?).
- created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
- would allow each territory to decide on the slavery issue by using “popular sovereignty”.
- led to the formation of the Republican Party which supported keeping slavery out of the territories.
- led to “Bleeding Kansas”.
The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 keeping an even balance of lave and free states and prohibited slavery north of the southern boundary of Missouri (with the exception of MO)

4. Bleeding Kansas
Because Kansas would decide about slavery through popular sovereignty, both the North (antislavery) and the South (pro-slavery) sent thousands of people into Kansas to sway the vote.
Tensions between the two groups led to violence and the destruction of property, including the sacking of Lawrence.
How did the violence in Kansas
help demonstrate that popular
sovereignty was a failure?

5. Dred Scott
With the help of an abolitionist group Dred Scott, a slave, sued for freedom (1847), claiming that because he had lived in a free state, he should be free.

6. Dred Scott In 1857 the Supreme Court ruled against Scott.
*Scott was eventually freed in May 1857, but died nine months later*
Dred Scott
In 1857 the Supreme Court ruled against Scott.
Because slaves were not citizens of the U.S., Scott could not sue in Federal Court: ended popular sovereignty and protected slavery under the Constitution.

7. John Brown’s Raid
A abolitionist who used violence (Kansas) against those supporting slavery.
In 1859, he and his followers tried to support a slave uprising in Virginia by seizing an arsenal in Harpers Ferry.
Brown and his followers killed several men in Kansas before ending up in Virginia. Harper’s Ferry is in present day West Virginia.

8. John Brown’s Raid
The uprising was quickly put down Brown was executed.
Brown was viewed by many in the North as a martyr for the anti-slavery movement.
How do you think
Brown was viewed
In the South-why?
Brown was viewed as a lunatic and terrorist in the South