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1 Bleeding Kansas – The Nation Begins to Break!
By: Mrs. Andreatta Chapter 14 Section 2

2 Bleeding Kansas Anti-Slavery & Pro-Slavery supporters rush to Kansas for the vote. Pro-Slavery supporters win the vote & pass a new Fugitive Slave Law – allowing to put to death those who help slaves. Anti-Slavery state Gov. is created in protest.

3 Bleeding Kansas - Continued
President Franklin Pierce recognized only Pro-Slavery Legislature (laws / bills) The issue of slavery impacts everyone in Kansas

4 Violence in Kansas

5 Attack on Lawrence, Kansas
Pro-Slavery grand jury charges Anti-Slavery gov. with treason. John Brown & sons kill 5 pro-slavery people at Pottawatomie Creek. Kansas breaks out in civil war! Representative Preston Brooks beats Charles Sumner unconscious with a cane on the House floor!

6 Hotel attacked in Lawrence , Kansas

7 John Brown - Young & Old

8 Famous Painting – Harpers Ferry

9 Brooks vs. Sumner – Harpers Weekly

10 Forcing Slavery


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