Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

• What were the results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

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Kansas-Nebraska Act
Douglas introduced a bill to settle the issue of
slavery in the new territories.
Stephen A. Douglas
Douglas wanted to allow people living in these
territories to vote on whether or not to have
slavery.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Northerner protested the plan
• Allowed slavery in places where it had be outlawed

President Pierce
APPROVED
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Senators Fight!

• Sumner gives a two day speech about how Kansas
  had a great deal of wrong brought against it

• Brooks has enough and decided to teach Sumner a
  lesson

Charles Sumner Massachusetts
Preston Brooks South Carolina

• Sumner was beat up until he was unconscious.
• Was reelected but seat remained vacant as
  reminder

Southerners sent Brooks new canes
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John Brown
Tensions raise in Kansas! Pro- Slavery and
Abolitionist fight to kill off one another
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Outcome

• Birth of the modern Republican Party
• Republicans were AGAINST SLAVERY!

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Video

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