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Kansas-Nebraska Act

Kansas-Nebraska Act. Bleeding Kansas. “A living, creeping lie.”. If Kansas should sink today, and leave a great vacant space in the earths surface, this vexed question [of slavery] would still be among us A. Lincoln. Today’s Goal.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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  1. Kansas-Nebraska Act Bleeding Kansas

  2. “A living, creeping lie.” • If Kansas should sink today, and leave a great vacant space in the earths surface, this vexed question [of slavery] would still be among us • A. Lincoln

  3. Today’s Goal • Understand the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and understand characters and the sequence of events in Kansas from 1854 until statehood in 1861.

  4. Related Vocabulary • Popular Sovereignty-The belief that the people living in a territory should decide for themselves if the territory should become a slave state or free state • Freesoiler-A person who came to Kansas after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. • Border Ruffian- A person who was in favor of slavery and came across the border from Missouri to vote illegally in elections • Proslavery-People that were in favor of slavery and believed that Kansas should become a slave state • Antislavery-People that were not in favor of slavery and believed that Kansas should become a free state • Abolitionists-A radical that thought that slavery should be abolished or done away with because it was immoral • Land Speculators-People that obtained land in Kansas with the hopes of buying it at a low price and selling it at a high Price

  5. Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 • Repeals the Missouri Compromise • Includes the Idea of Popular Sovereignty • Drawn up by a senator by the name of Stephen Douglass

  6. U.S. Map After the Act

  7. Impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act • Proslavery people and the Antislavery people started to fight with each other over the issue of slavery • The Proslavery men wanted to vote to make sure Kansas would become a slave state • The Antislavery people wanted to vote to make sure Kansas would become a free state • Freesoilers came to Kansas in hopes of making Kansas a free state

  8. Impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act • Bleeding Kansas • This was the term that refers to the disagreement between the antislavery men and the proslavery men over control of Kansas

  9. Pro & Anti Slavery Settlers Take Action • The northern states organize groups of people to move to Kansas. These people became known as freesoilers. Their only reason for moving to Kansas was to make sure Kansas would become a free state • Missouri organized what became known as Border Ruffians to come across the border and vote illegally in elections.

  10. Two Territorial Governments Pro Slavery Government Anti-Slavery Government Antislavery men organized their government at Lawrence • Proslavery men organized their government at Shawnee Mission Each claimed to be the legitimate or correct government of Kansas and thought the other should not be there

  11. Bleeding Kansas Begins • Samuel Jones-Proslavery Sheriff who burned Lawrence in 1855 • In the Wakarusa War, homes and businesses were burned along with the free-state Hotel. Several people were killed

  12. Violence Continues

  13. Two State Governments Pro-Slavery Government Anti-Slavery Government Located in Topeka KS • Located in Lecompton KS

  14. To the Victor Go the Spoils… • Eventually enough free-soil people had moved into Kansas as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act that the government at Lecompton (pro-slavery) was voted out of office • *Note that both northerners and southerners believed that they could get the idea of popular sovereignty to work for them

  15. How Bloody Was It? IncidentTotal • Killed 0 • Wounded, contusion of the nose 2 • Missing 0 • Captured 3 • Frightened 5,718

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