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1 Chapter 10 Section 4 Kansas Territory- voters- free or slave state

2 Chapter 10 Section 4 Antislavery groups- NE- Emigrant Aid Societies “Free soilers”- end slavery in the territories Antislavery capital- Topeka Proslavery capital- Lecompton “Bleeding Kansas” John Brown- evangelical- end slavery Pottawatomie Creek- proslavery settlement 5 people killed Looting- Lawrence

3 Chapter 10 Section 4 “Bleeding Sumner” US Capitol Charles Sumner- Senator- Massachusetts- “The Crime Against Kansas”- antislavery Attacked Senator Andrew Butler- SC Preston Brooks- House member- defend the South Brooks beats Sumner with his cane

4 Chapter 10 Section 4 Election of 1856 Democrats- James Buchanan Republicans- John C. Fremont “Know Nothings”- American Party- Millard Fillmore Buchanan wins the election

5 Chapter 10 Section 4 March 1857- Dred Scott v. Sandford Dred Scott- enslaved man- Missouri Scott and wife Harriet Couple was free Why? They once lived- slavery- illegal Supreme Court- 7 to 2 against Scott Slaves not citizens and could not sue Missouri Compromise- unconstitutional

6 Chapter 10 Section 4 Lecompton Constitution Proslavery constitution KS- territory- slavery legal Senator Douglas- IL- 1858 “The Little Giant”- popular sovereignty Abraham Lincoln- Republican- runs against him Lincoln-Douglas Debates

7 Chapter 10 Section 4 Lincoln- born in KY- log cabin- 1809 Practiced law Did not believe in a majority rule Believed slavery- wrong Douglas wins the election

8 Chapter 10 Section 4 October 16, 1859 John Brown- attacked arsenal- Harpers Ferry, VA Arsenal- weapons made or stored US troops- Colonel Robert E. Lee John Brown hanged


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