1. "Bleeding Kansas"

2. Goals: What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854? How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act lead to "Bleeding Kansas?" How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act lead to "Bleeding Kansas?"

3. Kansas-Nebraska Act

4. 1. Passed in 1854.

5. Kansas-Nebraska Act 2. Proposed by Senator Stephen Douglas. Stephen Douglas.

6. Kansas-Nebraska Act 3. It let settlers in each territory vote on whether to allow slavery (Popular Sovereignty).

7. The Vote

8. 1. Thousands of pro- slavery people from Missouri crossed the border into Kansas to vote for slavery.

9. "Bleeding Kansas"

10. 1. Violence breaks out between pro- slavery and anti- slavery groups.

11. "Bleeding Kansas" 1. Violence breaks out between pro- slavery and anti- slavery groups. 2. "Beecher's Bibles."

12. "Bleeding Kansas" 1. Violence breaks out between pro- slavery and anti- slavery groups. 2. "Beecher's Bibles."

13. "Bleeding Kansas" 1. Violence breaks out between pro- slavery and anti- slavery groups. 2. "Beecher's Bibles." 3. John Brown and his sons killed 5 pro-slavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek.

14. Violence in Congress

16. 1. Preston Brooks (pro-slavery) caned Charles Sumner (anti- slavery) on the floor of the U.S. Senate.