2. Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Divided Nebraska Territory in 2- Nebraska and Kansas territories
Popular sovereignty will decide if slavery will exist in each of these territories
Is this a fair compromise?

3. What legal or Congressional problem do you notice with the Kansas-Nebraska Act?????

4. Popular Sovereignty? Election for Kansas
How can each side of the conflict try to ensure victory for their cause?
Get people to move their to vote
Kill people from the other side!!!!!
Raids continued all the way to the start of the Civil War
Election fought over “an imaginary Negro in an impossible place”
What does this mean?
2 slaves in Kansas/15 in Nebraska in 1860

5. Strange Saga of John Brown starts in Kansas
Brown background-
Rich old white guy
Alton Massacre kills Rev. Elijah Lovejoy
Brown vows- “Here before God, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery”
Pottawatomie Massacre- hacked 7 pro slavery guys to death
“Osawatomie Brown”
kills 20 more
Northern hero
Amnesty to try and reduce violence allows Brown to return East to the North
MORE FROM MR. BROWN TO COME!!!!!!

6. Bleeding Sumner!!
Charles Sumner- Sen. from Mass. and ardent abolitionist, makes “Crime Against Kansas” speech
Insults elder S. Car. Sen. Andrew Butler, and his “mistress of slavery”
Preston Brooks, cousin of Butler, attacks Sumner on Senate floor
Bludgeons him with cane, Sumner bed-ridden for 4 years
“I gave him about 30 first rate stripes. Towards the last he bellowed like a calf. I wore out my cane completely, but saved the head, which is gold!”

8. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe Millions of copies sold
Depicted brutality and immorality of slavery
“Uncle Tom”, Simon Legree
Book was very popular in Europe. Important future ramifications!!!! Tom shows

9. Background of Dred Scott vs. Sandford Case
Background of the Case
Scott was a slave owned by Army Dr. Major Emerson
Emerson moves to present day Minnesota and brings Scott
Emerson died in 1843
Wife inherited slave, but moved to Mass. so she left Scott to her brother John Sandford of NY
Scott sues for freedom on the basis that when his owner brought him to a free state and territory, he was technically free
Lots of appeals, sheriffs office rents him out and keeps the profits in escrow

10. 2. Scott was private property
Dred Scott Decision
Roger Taney- Chief Justice
3 parts to ruling
1. Scott was not a citizen, therefore he had no legal right to sue in a federal court
2. Scott was private property
3. Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional

11. Affect of Scott case
Slavery can now possibly be legal in ALL TERRITORIES OF THE US!
Splits Democrat party
The North claimed it was an opinion and not a binding law (keep the nully going!)