The Kansas Nebraska Act
Who created the Kansas Nebraska act?
Senator Stephen Douglas
What is a Border Ruffian?
Pro slavery people who crossed the border illegally to vote in Kansas.
What did the anti-slavery party get from New England abolitionists?
Sharps rifles
What was John Brown called?
Radical abolitionist
Who was offended by Charles Sumner speech?
Preston Brooks
What did the Kansas Nebraska act do?
The act allowed the territory to decide if they will become a free state or a slave state based off of popular sovereignty
Where did most of the Border Ruffians come from?
Missouri
What did they call the sharp rifles?
Beecher’s bibles
What did John Brown think of slavery?
Slavery was immoral and unthinkable, and that the only way to stop it was to fight the fire with fire
When did Preston Brooks stop hitting Charles Sumner?
When people forcibly pulled him off of Charles Sumner
What got repealed because of the Kansas Nebraska act that made the north mad?
Missouri Compromise
Why did the border ruffians want Kansas to be a slave state?
Missouri was a slave state they and wanted to be right next to another slave state
800 pro slavery people from Kansas attacked the anti-slavery people on what date?
May 21, 1856
What year did John Brown and his followers attack at Pottawatomie Creek?
1856
What did Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner with?
A gold tipped cane.
What political party did it split up?
The Whigs
What did the Border ruffians control if they won the election?
The legislature
What town did the pro-slavery party attack?
Lawrence
How many people were killed because of the events at Pottawatomie Creek?
Over two-hundred people
What happened to Charles Sumner after the attack?
Experienced immense physical and mental damage leading to him keeping away from Senate for years.
Who did the Kansas Nebraska act create even more tension for
The north and the south
Where did the anti-slavery party go when the pro-slavery party won?
Topeka
Why did the pro-slavery party attack the anti-slavery party?
The pro-slavery party sending a strong message to not defy and trying to intimidate the anti slavery party
They called this an early ______ To the Civil War.
Prelude
What did Charles Sumner say about Andrew Butler?
Slavery was Andrew Butlers mistress and slavery is a Harlot that he is obsessed with and he's an imbecile for it.