Kansas-Nebraska Act Who was John Brown and was he a crazy?

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Who was John Brown and was he a crazy?

• How does the Kansas-Nebraska Act lead to Civil War?

Review

• How was Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore different?

• What was the Compromise of 1850?

• How was it unfair?

• What are abolitionists?

• What is the free-soil party?

• Do you think they are for or against slavery?

• What is popular sovereignty?

New President

• Franklin Pierce: Democrat

• What do we remember about Democrats?

Bloody Kansas

• Kansas-Nebraska Act:

• Bill to set up a government in Nebraska territory
• Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois pushed for the bill
• Knew the South didn’t want the North to have another free state

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Divide the territory into Kansas and Nebraska

• People would vote if there is slavery:popular sovereignty

• This bill would make both sides happy and Franklin Pierce signed off.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Rumors had spread through the South that 20,000 Northerners were coming to Kansas

• 1854, thousands of armed Southerners, mostly from Missouri vote for proslavery

• Only half the ballots were cast by registered voters

• Proslavery forces won the election.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• March 30, 1855 election choose members of the territorial legislature.

• The Missourians, or "Border Ruffians,"

• Came to vote
• 2,905 registered voters
• 6,307 actual ballots cast.
• 791 voted against slavery.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• North is mad!!!!!

• "Bogus Laws," which incorporated the Missouri slave code.

• huge penalties against anyone who spoke or wrote against slaveholding;
• helped fugitives would be put to death or sentenced to ten years hard labor

• North set up their own Free State legislature at Topeka.

• Now two governments in Kansas

• President Pierce only recognized the proslavery legislature.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Most settlers who came wanted a peaceful life however. . .

• Violence erupted throughout the territory.

• David Atchison, a Missouri senator. Atchison proclaimed the Northerners to be "negro thieves" and "abolitionist tyrants.”
• He encouraged Missourians to defend their institution "with the bayonet and with blood" and, if necessary, "to kill every God-damned abolitionist in the district."

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Most people who came weren’t abolitionists

• They were Free Soil party

• free territory for free white people.
• Hated slavery, because. . . .
• plantations took over the land and prevented white working people from having their own homes.
• Hated black people didn’t want them in the state
• The Free Staters voted 1,287 to 453 to outlaw black people, slave or free, from Kansas.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Lots of attacks of proslavery people against Free State men

• tarred and feathered,
• kidnapped,
• killed.
• May 21, 1856, burned the Free State Hotel, destroyed two printing presses, and ransacked homes and stores

Now it’s time for John Brown’s story

• John Brown

• Who was he?

John Brown

• Who: abolitionist

• Where: Harper’s Fairy, West Virginia

• When: 1859

• Why: needed a violent way to end slavery, peace was not working

• What: took over federal Amory and was killing to end slavery

• Maybe the only way is through war?

Kansas

• Kansas will eventually apply for a free state but the South will not annex it

• It will not become a state until the South secedes from the union in 1861

Beat Down in the Senate

• In groups you are going to read an article about the Charles Sumner canning.

• You will be drawing a picture and writing a paragraph about the event. (5 sentences and topic sentence.)

• You will be assigned either a Northern perspective or Southern perspective.

• Remember back to John Brown resources how their were two different ways to tell the story!

Sumner-Brooks Affair

Dred Scott vs. Standford

• Dredd Scott was a slave in Missouri

• Moved to Illnionis then Wisconisn with his owner

• He then returend to missouri and his owner died

• Scott argued he should be free because he lived in free state

• Took case to Supreme Court 1857

Dred Scott

• What do you think the defense will argue?

Dred Scott Case Ruling

• Scott couldn’t sue because he isn’t a citizen

• Supreme Court said slaves are property so their masters can take them anywhere

• How does this upset everything?????

Dred Scott Ruling

• Slavery had to be allowed anywhere people can not be denied their proerpty!!!!

• People are made

Work Cited

• PBS

• http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215469/kansas-nebraska_act.htm

• http://www.civilwarhome.com/kansasnebraska.htm

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0QJ4xhV3Wk&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1

• http://www.us-coin-values-advisor.com/rare-pennies.html