Kansas-Nebraska Act/bleeding Kansas

Dred Scott v. Sanford

(1857) Slaves were classified as property. Which meant they could not sue. This case fueled the flames that began the Civil War.

John Wilkes Booth

April 14 United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin 1852 - this opens many eyes and makes more abolition more respectable

Why was the the civil war so tragic?

- better guns/weapons - lack of sanitary conditions - not knowing about infections; medicine was still in the "dark ages"

Abraham Lincoln

1861-1865 16th president

The Civil War

1861-1865 •Name the U.S war between the North and the South.

Homestead Act

1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years

Battle of Gettysburg

1863 the event that marked the last major Confederate attempt to invade the North 50,000 die in 3 days

John Brown

Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia

Election of 1856

Buchanan (Dem) defeats Fremont (Rep -Free Soil) and Fillmore (Know Nothings)

Several Southern states secede and form the....

Confederacy In December of 1860 7- states SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, TX

States

In order for Chicago Illinois to benefit from the Transcontinental Railroad, the territories below Illinois (Kansas & Nebraska) had to become what?

What new party came into being in?

Know-nothings party; organized to take place of Whigs

James Buchanan

Lecompton Constitution Wins all of south and lower north

President

One of the reasons Stephen Douglas came up with the Kansas-Nebraska Act was to gain support from Southern Democrats so that he could run for what?

Before

Order of Events: The Kansas-Nebraska Act came BEFORE or AFTER Bleeding Kansas?

After

Order of Events: The Kansas-Nebraska Act came BEFORE or AFTER the Missouri Compromise?

What was the roll of the national government?

Pass higher tariff, income tax only while the war lasted, transitional rail road, homested act.

Popular Sovereignty

People in a region choose. People in Kansas & Nebraska (as well as NM, UT, NV) would choose whether or not they'd have slave labor.

1854

When did the Kansas-Nebraska Act go into effect?

Above 36' 30'

Where in the Louisiana Territory was Kansas & Nebraska located?

Anti-Slavery Supporters

Who was against the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Missouri Compromise

The Kansas-Nebraska Act went against what?

Pro-Slavery Supporters

Who would benefit from the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Kansas-Nebraska Act

This law (act) would allow the people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska choose for themselves on whether the territory would be free of slave labor or have slaves.

Stephen Douglas

This man came up with the Kansas Nebraska Act.

Railroads

What did Stephen Douglas want his state of Illinois to benefit from?

Bleeding Kansas

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act lead to?

Manassas Junction (July 1861)

also called 1st Bull Run. The South won because they received reinforcements.

Battle of Shiloh

an 1862 Civil War battle in Tennessee that ended in a Union victory

Emancipation Proclamation

order issued by Abraham Lincoln declaring slaves in all rebelling states were free -frees no slaves

Election of 1860

•Abraham Lincoln- first Republican president. •Northern democrats choose- Stephen Douglas •Southern democrats choose- John breckinridge