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“Bleeding Kansas”
1854- 1856
By Ian Romine and Mackenzie Smith
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Fredrick Douglass introduced a bill to
divide the area.
• Based on popular sovereignty it would
decide what state would be slave or free
states.
• At the same time it would repeal the
Missouri Compromise.
“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That all that part of the territory of
the United States included within the following limits,
except such portions thereof as are he reinafter
expressly exempted from the operations of this act, to
wit: beginning at a point in the Missouri River where the
fortieth parallel of north latitude crosses the same;”
ttp://vlib.us/amdocs/texts/kanneb.html
The Race for Kansas
• Settlers came in from North and South
• Some were just farmers
• While others were sent by emigrant aid
societies.
• By 1855, Kansas had enough settlers to
hold an election for territorial legislature.
Border Ruffians
• Rushed into Kansas/Nebraska Territory
from Missouri.
• Came to vote illegally many times so that
Kansas would come in as a slave state.
• This lead to an eventual preview of the
Civil War, a battler between people for and
against slavery.
Violence Erupts
• The Sack of Lawrence
• The Pottawatomie Massacre
• John Brown
Violence in the State
May 19 – Mass. Senator Charles Sumner
delivers a speech.
May 22 – Congressman Preston S. Brooks
attacks Sumner on the head with a cane.
Southerners applauded and showered
Brooks with new canes and praise.
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Bibliography
• Bleeding kansas. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2952.html
• Gerald A. Danzer et. al., The Americans, McDougall
Littell, 2003
• Kansas - nebraska act 1854: american history
documents: amdocs: an act to organize the territories of
nebraska and kansas. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://vlib.us/amdocs/texts/kanneb.html
• Political map of the united states. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/archive/03/0320001r
.
• Southern chivarly argument. (n.d.). Retrieved from
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