TENSION AND VIOLENCE IN KANSAS AND NEBRASKA 

POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY: STEPHEN DOUGLAS

-"It will triumph & impart peace to the country & stability to the Union."-Stephen Douglas regarding popular sovereignty 

-Allowed the settlers of a federal territory to decide the slavery question without interference from Congress

-Wanted to avoid a national crisis over slavery in the federal territories

POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY: STEPHEN DOUGLAS -Popular sovereignty was invoked in the Compromise of 1850.

-It undid the Missouri Compromise

VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUOpYRxWI30

KANSAS AND NEBRASKA ACT

- Both wanted to become a state but didn't know if they would be a slave or a free state

- Decided popular sovereignty would decide

- The popular vote 

- 4 previous attempts were tried 

STEPHEN DOUGLAS 

"If the people of Kansas want a slaveholding state, let them have it, and if they want a free state they have a right to it, and it is not for the people of Illinois, or Missouri, or New York, or Kentucky, to complain, whatever the decision of Kansas may be."

INVOLVING THE COMPROMISE OF 1850- Douglas said it had the same principles of the Compromise of 1850

-got support from the southerners 

SACKING AT LAWRENCE 

-The sacking of Lawrence ccurred when tensions mounted in Kansas between free-state and proslavery forces after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

-It was sacked because anti-slavery people founded the town, but the town was being turned into a proslavery town.  

-It was turning into a proslavery town because of the Missouri Compromise 

CONTINUED

-The Missouri Compromise was later taken away and popular sovereignty was put in place.

-People in the South didn't like this because the popular sovereignty law might take Kansas away from the South.

POTTAWATOMIE MASSACRE

-John Brown became furoius because of the sacking of Lawrence.

-John Brown killed 5 pro-slavery men 

-He was later arrest and hung

VOILENC IN THE SENATE 

-Senator Charles Sumner gave a speech that made fun of the pro-slavery Senators

-This speech was called "The Crime against Kansas"

-The speech was mostly aimed at Senator Andrew Butler who was a supporter of slavery

CONTINUED 

-A nephew of Andrew Butler, Preston Brooks, went to Charles Sumner office and struck him in the head with his cane.

-This resulted in Charles Sumner to have brain damage       -Sumner returned to the Senate 3 years later

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WORKS CITED

-"Lesson 3: The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854: Popular Sovereignty and the Political                      Polarization over Slavery | EDSITEment." EDSITEment | The Best of the Humanities on the Web. Web. 18 Oct. 2011. <http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/kansas-nebraska-act-1854-popular-sovereignty-and-political-polarization-over-slavery>.    -"Chapter 10 The Union in Peril/Section 2 Protest, Resistance, and Violence." The American.  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 315. Print.-"A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 - 1875." Http://memory.loc.gov. Web. 18 Oct. 2011. <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=010/llsl010.db&recNum=298>.

PICTURE CITATION

http://www.xtimeline.com/__UserPic_Large/106493/evt110412162100116.jpg

http://www.legendsofkansas.com/images/The%20Union,%201852-500.jpg

http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/media/uploads/lincolns_shifting_1854.jpg

http://www.ozarkscivilwar.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/stephen-and-mother1.jpg

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