Chapter 10 Section 4 Kansas Territory- voters- free or slave state.

Chapter 10 Section 4

Kansas Territory- voters- free or slave state


• Antislavery groups- NE- Emigrant Aid Societies• “Free soilers”- end slavery in the territories• Antislavery capital- Topeka• Proslavery capital- Lecompton• “Bleeding Kansas”• John Brown- evangelical- end slavery• Pottawatomie Creek- proslavery settlement• 5 people killed• Looting- Lawrence


• “Bleeding Sumner”• US Capitol• Charles Sumner- Senator- Massachusetts-

“The Crime Against Kansas”- antislavery• Attacked Senator Andrew Butler- SC• Preston Brooks- House member- defend the

South• Brooks beats Sumner with his cane


• Election of 1856• Democrats- James Buchanan• Republicans- John C. Fremont• “Know Nothings”- American Party- Millard

Fillmore• Buchanan wins the election


• March 1857- Dred Scott v. Sandford• Dred Scott- enslaved man- Missouri• Scott and wife Harriet• Couple was free• Why? They once lived- slavery- illegal• Supreme Court- 7 to 2 against Scott• Slaves not citizens and could not sue• Missouri Compromise- unconstitutional


• Lecompton Constitution• Proslavery constitution• KS- territory- slavery legal• Senator Douglas- IL- 1858• “The Little Giant”- popular sovereignty• Abraham Lincoln- Republican- runs against

him• Lincoln-Douglas Debates


• Lincoln- born in KY- log cabin- 1809• Practiced law• Did not believe in a majority rule• Believed slavery- wrong• Douglas wins the election


• October 16, 1859• John Brown- attacked arsenal- Harpers Ferry,

VA• Arsenal- weapons made or stored• US troops- Colonel Robert E. Lee• John Brown hanged

Chapter 10 Section 4 Kansas Territory- voters- free or slave state.

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