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Tension and Violence in Kansas and Nebraska

Tension and Violence in Kansas and Nebraska. Dom/Blake U .S. H istory 4 th. 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

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Tension and Violence in Kansas and Nebraska

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  1. Tension and Violence in Kansas and Nebraska Dom/Blake U.S. History 4th

  2. Problem in Nebraska • Native Americans lived there • Whites wanted to expand • Also wanted to use land to farm

  3. Stephen A. Douglas • Democratic senator from Illinois • Chairman of the committee on territories • Introduced bill dealing with the unorganized lands in 1854

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  6. Effect on the Compromise 1850 • It led to Bleeding Kansas • This exposed the doctrine's shortcomings. • Balanced free states and slave states

  7. Bleeding Kansas • Violent events between anti-slavery states and pro slavery states • Took place in Kansas territory and western parts of Missouri. • Free state or slave state? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYpcyS48xqE

  8. John Brown • Abolitionist • republican • Wanted to abolish slavery • Led the Pottawatomie massacre • Attacked Harpers Ferry

  9. 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

  10. 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.

  11. Sack of Lawrence • Anti-Slavery settlement • May 21, 1856, was attacked by 800 southerners • Led to the Pottawatomie massacre

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. citing • http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=1850+comprimise&view=detail&id=315C435B1036D65A9588CE1EAEBB9BFB8BDF10A1&first=1&FORM=IDFRIR&qpvt=1850+comprimise • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2951.html • http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=nebraska&view=detail&id=6EED9CA1E9A4F8E4447D6C624ED28C98A85C2270&first=31&FORM=IDFRIR • http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=slavery&view=detail&id=FE66CC15587434A272FBC64F643ABF279102C545&first=1&FORM=IDFRIR • http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=kansas+university&view=detail&id=EC27AE7F37E7819236858B4B8CB81EF8A133A775&first=31&FORM=IDFRIR • http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.alomani.com/knowledge/history/us/images/f_border_ruffians.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.alomani.com/knowledge/history/us/unit_iii_1.html&usg=__IwqINBU6IrR-D6eBrtKhnI6Trgs=&h=336&w=509&sz=26&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=QILQQI-Z8M7ulM:&tbnh=122&tbnw=163&ei=zxtDTYHRC8nGgAfbsN3BAQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbleeding%2Bkansas%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D575%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C57&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=512&oei=zxtDTYHRC8nGgAfbsN3BAQ&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:7,s:0&tx=105&ty=86&biw=1280&bih=575 • http://uploads.neatorama.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Southern_Chivalry-500x327.jpg

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