1. Bloodshed in Kansas
Chapter 15, Section 3

2. Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854 Stephen Douglas of Illinois introduced a bill to set up a government for the Nebraska Territory
Stretched from Texas, north to Canada and Missouri west to the Rocky Mountains.

3. Kansas-Nebraska Act Kansas Nebraska Act Proposed by Stephen Douglas
He proposed dividing the Nebraska territory into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska
Popular sovereignty would decided the issue of slavery

4. Undoing the Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act would undo the Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise had banned slavery in Kansas in Nebraska

5. Undoing the Missouri Compromise
Southern leaders supported the Kansas- Nebraska Act
Thought slave owners from Missouri would move into Kansas
So Kansas would become a slave state
With the help of President Franklin Pierce, Stephen Douglas pushed the bill through Congress

6. Northern Outrage Northern reaction was angry Northerners protests
Slavery could now spread to areas that had been free for more than 30 years
Northerners protests
Challenged the Fugitive Slave Law

7. Northern Outrage
Citizens of Boston poured in to the streets to stop a caught fugitive slave from being sent to the South
Showed the antislavery feeling was rising in the North

8. Kansas Explodes
Proslavery and Antislavery forces sent forces to Kansas to fight for control on election day when popular sovereignty would decide the slave issue

9. Rushing to Kansas
Most new arrivals were farmers from neighboring states
Moved for cheap land
Few owned slaves
Abolitionist brought in more than 1,000 settlers from New England
Border ruffians: Proslavery settlers rode across the border from Missouri

10. Divided Kansas 1855 Kansas held elections to choose lawmakers
Hundred of border Ruffians crossed the border and voted illegally
Helped elect a proslavery legislature

11. Divided Kansas New legislation quickly passed laws to protect slavery
People could be put to death for helping slaves
Speaking out against slavery was a crime punishable with two years of hard labor

12. Divided Kansas Antislavery settlers refused to accept these laws
Elected their own government

13. The first shots
1856 a band of proslavery men raided Lawrence, and smashed the press of a Free Soil newspaper

14. The first shots
John Brown, an abolitionist, who claimed God sent him t punish supporters of slavery, took his four sons to Pottawatomie Creek
Drug five proslavery settlers from bed and murdered them
These murders sparked more violence
By 1856 more than 200 people had been killed
That territory is known as Bleeding Kansas

15. Bloodshed in the Senate
Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was a leading abolitionist senator
Denounced the proslavery legislation in Kansas
Attacked southern foes, singling out Andrew Butler senator from South Carolina
Butler was not in the senate on the day of Sumner’s speech

16. Bloodshed in the Senate
Days later Butler’s nephew Congressman Preston Brook marched into the senate and beat Sumner with a cane
Southern defended brook’s actions
Northerners saw it as evidence that slavery leads to violence

17. The Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave that lived in Missouri for many years
Later he moved with his owner to Illinois and then to Wisconsin territory was slavery was not allowed
They returned to Missouri and Scott’s owner died
Antislavery lawyers filed a lawsuit saying Dred Scott was a free man because he has lived in a free territory

18. A sweeping decision The case reached the Supreme Court
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott could not file a lawsuit because as a black he was not a citizen
Justices agreed slaves were property

19. A sweeping decision
Congress did not have the power to outlaw slaver in any territory
the Missouri compromise was unconstitutional
slavery was legal in all territories

20. The nation reacts In the North many people held public meetings
Northerners feared that slavery could spread throughout the West