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Bleeding Kansas1853 – 1861
Silvia Kat Roa
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Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois
• Loved the idea of Manifest Destiny and popular sovereignty
• Transcontinental Railroad going from East to West passing through Chicago
• Nebraska territory needed to be organized with a bill but Southern votes were needed
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• To please the South the Nebraska Territory would be decided by popular sovereignty
• This would open the North to slavery
• Repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which said that slavery could not extend above the 36' 30" line
•The bill became law on May 30, 1854.
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North
New England Emigrant Aid Company
Harriet Ward Beecher
Free Soilers
South
Border Ruffians
David Atchison
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New England Emigrant Aid Company• Organized by Eli Thayer
• Sent settlers to Kansas to secure it as a free territory
• By the summer of 1855, approximately 1,200 New Englanders had made the journey to the new territory, armed to fight for freedom.
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The abolitionist minister Henry Ward Beecher furnished settlers with Sharps rifles, which came to be known as "Beecher's Bibles."
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Border Ruffians• Armed Southerners, mostly from Missouri, poured over
the line to vote for a proslavery
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• Only half the ballots were cast by registered voters
• The proslavery forces won the election
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Bogus Law• Incorporated the Missouri slave code
• Leveled severe penalties against anyone who spoke or wrote against slaveholding
• Those who assisted fugitives would be put to death or sentenced to ten years hard labor
• The Northerners set up their own Free State legislature at Topeka
•President Pierce only recognized the proslavery legislature.
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David Atchison• Missouri senator who proclaimed the Northerners to be "negro thieves" and "abolitionist tyrants." • He encouraged Missourians to defend their institution "with the bayonet and with blood" and, if necessary, "to kill every God-damned abolitionist in the district."
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Free Soilers• Demanded free territory for free white people
• Hated slavery because plantations took over the land and prevented white working people from having their own homesteads
• Hated it because it brought large numbers of black people wherever it went.
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Lecompton
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John Brown at Pottawatomie
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Violence In Congress
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John W. Geary