U.S. History
Mr. Boothby
11/17/2016
Target
Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunity PT II
Bleeding Kansas/ John Brown/ CIVIL WAR!!!
https://www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/outlines/chapter-19-drifting-toward-disunion-1854-1861/
Reaction: Practicing Historical Thinking…
Activity BELOW: + HANDOUT
Silently Read Pages 415-424
(Should be 1 page minimum)
1) What were the events leading up into and after “Bleeding Kansas”?
2) Who do you feel was in the right over the issues in Kansas during the
bloody months of 1856? What would you do if you were there?
3) Explain how congress went crazy and a Senator was eventually caned to
death? PEOPLE ARE REALLY GETTING FIRED UP!
4) What was the Dred Scott Case and what happened to Mr. Scott. Do you
feel it was fair? Why do you agree or disagree with the findings of this case?
EVERYTHING IS DUE next class meeting!
TONIGHT HANDOUT AND READ PAGES 424-433 + Cornell Notes
Chapter 19 Drifting Towards Disunion PART 3 FINAL
http://www.apnotes.net/notes-12e/ch19-12e.html
DREDD SCOTT PPT/DISCUSSION!
1)What were the events leading up into and after “Bleeding
Kansas”?
In 1856, the free soil town of Lawrence burned (most likely by the
pro-slavery), sparking Bleeding Kansas.
In response, John Brown led his followers from Oswatomie to
Pottawatomie Creek in May 1856, killing 5 "proslavery" men
In 1857 Kansas applied for statehood, Lecompton Composition
was proposed by the pro-slavery at Shawnee Mission, leading the
free soilers to avoid the polls
2)Who do you feel was in the right over the issues in Kansas
during the bloody months of 1856? What would you do if you
were there?
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
3)Explain how congress went crazy a Senator was eventually
nearly caned to death?
Senator Charles Sumner gives a speech titles "The Crimes
Against Kansas" where he insults Andrew Butler. In response,
Preston Brooks beat Sumner with a cane until it broke in half
The House couldn't get enough votes to expel Brooks, so he
resigned and was reelected
4)What was the Dred Scott Case and what happened to Mr. Scott.
Was it fair? Why do you agree or disagree with the findings of
this case?
Dred Scott was a slave who sued for his freedom in 1857, and the
Supreme Court rules that Scott is not a citizen and had no right to
sue. Taney also declares that slaves were private property, and it
doesn't matter where the slave is, he will still be a slave, and this
decision splits the Democrats
In 1858 there was a Senatorial election in Illinois; Stephen
Douglas vs. Abraham Lincoln
Douglas was challenged to 7 debates by Lincoln and came to be
known as the Lincoln-Douglas Debates to prove himself
In one debate, Lincoln asks "if a territory does not want slavery,
who should win out? Should it still be based on popular
sovereignty, or should we follow the Supreme Court decision on
Dred Scott?"
Douglas replies with the Freeport Doctrine; if people don't want
it, it won't happen.
Douglas was reelected to the US Senate (indirectly by
Legislature), but Lincoln is now a national figure, and from here
on out the Democrats split in the North and South
John Brown planned to attack at Harper's Ferry to capture arms
and ammunition, spark a slave revolt, and create a free black
state
Brown is captured and accused of treason, convicted, and hung
Get with 1 partner and cover the I.A.E.
Do ½ page only on 1 sheet of paper (Each person needs their own ½ pg.)
CAUSE<
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of
Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had
the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by
allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine
through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery
within each territory. The act was designed by Democratic
Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. The initial purpose of the
Kansas–Nebraska Act was to open up many thousands of new
farms and make feasible a Midwestern Transcontinental
Railroad. The popular sovereignty clause of the law led pro- and
anti-slavery elements to flood into Kansas with the goal of voting
slavery up or down, resulting in TICKING EVERYONE OFF…
EFFECT >Bleeding Kansas.
SON OF A ^&%*&%^*(^_!!!
Free States 17 / Slave 13 States