Bleeding Kansas

Bleeding Kansas

• Outbreak of violence in the Kansas and Nebraska territory over Popular Sovereignty over the slavery

Election of Lincoln

• 1860 election of a republican president who had moderate views on slavery.

• Southerners feared he would take away slavery.

• Lincoln did not gain a single electoral vote in the south.

Popular Sovereignty

•Allowing a vote to decide an issue

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Takes back the Missouri Compromise• A state could decide if would be a free or slave

state by a popular vote when it applied for statehood

Compromise of 1850

• California enters as a free state• Popular sovereignty decides Utah and New

Mexico territories• Fugitive Slave Law

Fugitive Slave Act

• People were required to return all runaway slaves or face prosecution

John Brown

• Abolitionist who was arrested for a raid on the Harper’s Ferry armory. Wanted to lead a slave revolt.

• Was a participant in Bleeding Kansas• Also led “John Brown’s Raid”

Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Wrote the book: Uncle Tom’s Cabin• This was about the life a of slave in the south.• Highly controversial and angered many

southerners

secede

• To break away

Scott vs Sanford

Dred Scott, a slave sues for his freedom after living in free territory for some time. His case was denied on the fact he was considered property and not a personAngers many abolitionists because it says slavery is allowed in all states.