Name_____________________________
Westward Expansion, Politics, and Slavery
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Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 pg.484-485
Who introduced the Act to Congress?
The KS-NE Act would divide the remainder of the
______________________ ___________________
into two territories – Kansas and Nebraska – and
allow the people in each territory to decide the
question of ________________.
What did it eliminate?
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Bleeding Kansas pg.486-487
What was the cause of the conflict in Kansas?
Around _____ people were killed! (pg. 487)
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Describe the Pottawatomie Massacre. pg.486-487
Explain the attack on Sumner by Brooks. pg. 487
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Dred Scott Decision p. 489-490
Dred Scott was the slave of an army surgeon from Missouri. He traveled with his master to
Illinois and Wisconsin. He sued for his freedom saying he had become free when he lived in
free territory. The case went to the Supreme Court which said:
1. African Americans were not _______________ and could not sue
2. Living on free soil had not made him _______
3. Congress had no right to ban slavery in any _____________________ territory
Lincoln-Douglas Debates p.491-492
In Illinois in 1858, Abraham Lincoln (from the _________________ Party) and
Stephen Douglas (from the __________________ Party) run for the U.S.
_______________. They have several debates during the campaign, mostly
focusing on the spread of slavery. Lincoln said he wanted to stop the spread of
slavery, Douglas said it was OK if slavery spread west. Lincoln _______ the
election, but becames a strong and important leader in the Republican Party.
John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry p. 493-494
On October 16, 1859, John Brown’s Raid began when he and his men took over the
______________ in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in hopes of starting a _________________
_______________. His plan did not work and federal troops soon came to stop the raid.
John Brown was quickly convicted of treason, _________________, and conspiracy and
sentenced to death. Some Northerners hailed Brown as a hero, while many Southerners
were afraid another attack would happen. One newspaper stated, “the sooner we get out
of the ______________, the better.”
The Meteor: John Brown Raids Harpers Ferry (Civil War documentary clip)
1. October 16, 1859 – Radical Abolitionist _________________________________ set out to destroy slavery
with a raid at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. He wanted to begin a slave uprising.
2. Brown and his men quietly seized the armory, arsenal, and engine house and took up hostages including the
great grandnephew of _____________________________________.
3. Federal Troops arrived from Washington, led by U.S. Army Colonel
____________________________________. Brown was captured and turned over to Virginia to be tried for
treason.
4. Dec 2, 1859 – John Brown is executed for treason against a ________________.
5. Frederick Douglass said, “I could live for the slave, John Brown could ________ for him.”
6. Brown “becomes the single most important factor… in bringing on the war… Southern
_________________________ begin to take a true form and the South begins to worry about Northerners
agitating the blacks to murder them in their beds.” - Ed Bearss, Historian
7. It was the beginning of the ____________________ Army.