Tension and Violence in Kansas and Nebraska

Dom/BlakeU.S. History

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Problem in Nebraska

• Native Americans lived there • Whites wanted to expand • Also wanted to use land to farm

Stephen A. Douglas

• Democratic senator from Illinois• Chairman of the committee on territories• Introduced bill dealing with the

unorganized lands in 1854

Slavery

• Because of the Missouri compromise Nebraska and Kansas would be free states

• The question of slavery was to be decided by popular sovereignty—allowing the territorial legislatures to decide.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Nebraska Territory was to be divided into two units — Kansas and Nebraska

The ban on slavery in Northern territories galvanized angry opposition

Effect on the Compromise 1850

• It led to Bleeding Kansas• This exposed the doctrine's shortcomings.• Balanced free states and slave states

Bleeding Kansas

• Violent events between anti-slavery states and pro slavery states

• Took place in Kansas territory and western parts of Missouri.

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John Brown

• Abolitionist• republican• Wanted to abolish slavery• Led the Pottawatomie massacre• Attacked Harpers Ferry

Harpers Ferry

• John brown led an attack on Harpers Ferry to free slaves.

• This caused disunion between the north and south

• Lincoln then disowned Brown as a republican

Primary Source

• “John brown was no republican and you have failed to implicate a single republican in his harpers ferry enterprise. If any members of our party is guilty in that matter or you know it, or you do not know it.” –Abraham Lincoln

• Bailey, Thomas Andrew. The American Spirit;. Boston: D. C. Heath, 1987. Print.

Sack of Lawrence

• Anti-Slavery settlement• May 21, 1856, was attacked by 800

southerners• Led to the Pottawatomie massacre

Pottawatomie Massacre

• John Brown was upset about the attack on Lawrence

• On may 24, 1856 John Brown led a small attack on several proslavery homes

• Ended his attack at Pottawatomie with the killing of William Sherman

Violence in the Senate • May 22, 1856, in between the sacking of Lawrence and the

Pottawatomie massacre violence erupted in the senate• Senator Charles summer gave a speech that insulted the

proslavery congressmen • Spoke against and insulted senator Andrew Butler• In response Butler’s nephew, congressman Preston Brooks

attacked Summer with a cane in the senate

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