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WITH A PARTNER… LIST 5 BULLETS FOR 5
ACQUISITIONS ON THE MAP
BLEEDING
KANSAS
UNITED STATES IN 1850
1854 Kansas and
Nebraska
want to join
the Union.
KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT
How would we resolve it?
KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT
• 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.
HOMEWORK!!!
• Allowed settlers in those
territories to determine
through Popular
Sovereignty whether they
would allow slavery within
each territory.
KANSAS-NEBRASKA
ACT, 1854
Territory Nebraska; and when
admitted as a State or States, the
said Territory or any portion of
the same, shall be received into
the Union with or without
slavery, as their Constitution
may prescribe at the time of the
admission…
Opposition: “We arraign this bill as
a gross violation of a sacred pledge;
as a criminal betrayal of precious
rights; as part and parcel
of an atrocious plot to …convert it
[the territories] into a dreary region
of despotism, inhabited by masters
and slaves….” Salmon P. Chase
…Territory of Kansas; and when
admitted as a State or States, the
said Territory, or any portion of
the same, shall be received into
the Union with or without
slavery, as their Constitution
may prescribe at the time of their
admission…
Defense: “The legal effect of this
bill…is neither to legislate slavery
into these territories or out of them,
but to leave the people to do as they
please….Why should this principle
not prevail?” Stephen A. Douglas
BLEEDING KANSAS
Border Ruffians
Pro-Slavery
Missourians
BLEEDING KANSAS
AN OPEN TERRITORY
Antislavery and pro-slavery groups rushed their supporters
to Kansas.
POPULAR
SOVEREIGNTY?!?!
Elections for the Kansas territorial legislature were held in
March 1855.
Almost 5,000 pro-slavery voters crossed the border from
Missouri, voted in Kansas, and then returned home.
Is this what popular sovereignty is
supposed to be?
THE CAPITAL OF
KANSAS IS…
Lecompton- After the vote, Lecompton becomes the capital of the
territory.
Topeka- Anti-slavery Kansans form a capital just 25 miles away.
President Franklin Pierce only recognizes Lecompton.
CONFLICT
ERUPTS
Little events had taken place in small communities resulting in a
few causalities.
The spring of 1856 brought a more organized approach to the
fighting.
The Pro-Slavery Kansas government decided to make a
statement…
THE SACKING OF LAWRENCE
On May 21st, 1856 Sam Jones, the illegitimately elected sheriff, and a
posse of ~700-1000 men rode into Lawrence.
Printing offices, stores, and the Free State Hotel were burned and
destroyed by cannon fire.
Free Kansas’ governor, Charles L Robinson, saw his house burned to the
ground
THE CRIME AGAINST
KANSAS
Charles Sumner, a Senator
from Massachusetts, gives
a 2 day speech about the
negatives of the KansasNebraska Act.
THE CRIME AGAINST
SUMNER
Preston Brooks of South Carolina addressed and
severely beat Sumner.
Several other senators attempted to help Sumner,
but were blocked by Keitt, of SC, who was
brandishing a pistol and shouting, "Let them be!"
Sumner did not attend the Senate for the next three
years while recovering from the attack.
During that period, his enemies subjected him to
ridicule and accused him of cowardice for not
resuming his duties in the Senate.
CRIME AGAINST SUMNER
POTTAWATOMIE
CREEK MASSACRE
May 24th, 1856
John Brown Sr. led his
sons & other
abolitionist into a
camp & killed 5 proslavery settlers north
of the Pottawatomie
Creek.
BATTLE OF BLACK JACK
June 2nd, 1856
Henry Pate, a participator at the Sacking of
Lawrence, kidnapped two of John Brown’s
sons.
John Brown and 29 others invaded his camp
near Baldwin.
Pate and 22 others were captured.
BATTLE OF
OSAWATOMIE
August 30, 1856
250-300 Border Ruffians led by John W. Reid and
Rev. Marvin White attacked the city of Osawatomie.
John W. Reid was intent on destroying free state
settlements and then moving on to Topeka and
Lawrence to do more of the same.
John Brown with forty or so men tried to defend the
town.
1857
Lecompton hosts a statehood constitutional convention…
William Quantrill moves to the territory…
1858
President Buchanan says “OK” to statehood, but
Congress does not…
Another territorial vote would most certainly push the
nation toward war…
THE MARAIS DES CYGNES
MASSACRE
th
May 19 , 1858
30 men led by Charles Hamilton, a Georgian native and
proslavery leader, crossed into Kansas from Missouri.
They captured 11 unarmed free-state men. Hamilton
ordered the men shot and fired the first bullet himself.
Five men were killed.
4TH TIME’S A CHARM!!!
December 6, 1859
The Wyandotte Constitution
was Kansas’ 4th attempt at
becoming a state.
Charles Robinson elected
governor under Wyandotte
Constitution.
KANSAS… THE STATE
April 11, 1860
U.S. House accepted Wyandotte Constitution.
January 21, 1861
U. S. Senate approved Wyandotte Constitution; slave states had
seceded.
January 29, 1861
President Buchanan signed bill admitting Kansas as state.
LANE VS PRICE
Sept 2nd, 1861
Union Soldiers Vs Missouri State Guard
Battle of Dry Wood Creek
SACKING OF
OSCEOLA
September 23, 1861
James Lane, a US Senator, and his forces drove off
a small Southern force and then looted and burned
the town of Osceola.
According to reports, many of the Kansans got so
drunk that when it came time to leave they were
unable to march and had to ride in wagons and
carriages.
The plundered the town and left with lots of goods.
Hundreds of slaves followed Lane to Kansas and
freedom.
THE MAN: WILLIAM
QUANTRILL
December, 1861
William Quantrill forms a band of
guerrilla troops, leading his men on
raids against Kansas and Missouri
farmers and townspeople who favor the
Union.
1862
Quantrill and his group joins up with
the Confederates, but acts
independently on occasion.
THE RAID OF SHAWNEE
October 17, 1862
Quantrill and his band attack Shawnee, Kansas, killing several
men and burning the settlement to the ground.
CREATING
ACCOMPLICES
August 13, 1863
A woman’s prison in KC collapsed,
killing 5 women and injuring dozens
of others. Crowds mobbed the area
shouting "Murder" at the Union
forces.
August 18, 1863
Union Brigadier General Thomas
Ewing, Jr. from Kansas, issued
General Order Number 10, which
stated that any person - man,
woman or child, who was directly
involved with aiding a band of Rebel
guerrillas would be jailed.
LAWRENCE
MASSACRE
August 21, 1863
Lawrence, KS is attacked by Confederate
guerillas led by William Quantrill.
More than 180 residents were killed in the
raid including men, women, and children.
The city was sacked and burned, and about
$1.5 million worth of property was
destroyed.
Only 1 of Quantrill’s Raiders is Killed
SEPTEMBER 1863,
HARPER’S WEEKLY
GENERAL ORDER 11
While our conflict is waging, the Civil War will break
out…during the War, the union will pass General Order 11
George Caleb Bingham painting of General Order No. 11. In this famous work
General Thomas Ewing is seated on a horse watching the Red Legs., 1868
IN THIS CORNER
John Brown
Name
William Quantrill
~6’3
Height
~5’ 10”
~165
Weight
~140
57
Age
25
Wise & Skilled
Strength
Dashing
Leader
& Free Spirited
LEAVING A LEGACY