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  • The Election of 1852
  • As a member of the Whig Party, I disapprove of this
  • Hi, I'm Franklin Pierce. I support slavery, and the rights of the south. Vote for me
  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • Hi, I'm Stephen Douglas, and I like trains.
  • I also like giving rights to the people, and I believe those who live in Kansas and Nebraska should have the right to decide on the topic of slavery
  • I and other AntiSlavery Northerners believe you are apart of a plot to bring slavery to the north, and ruin our country
  • Split of Kansas
  • In the Election of 1852, Franklin Pierce was elected president. He was trusted by many southern voters for the fact that he supported the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act
  • Bleeding Kansas
  • The Pro-slavery legislature is not legitimate, The anti-slavery guys are right
  • Hi, I'm the Federal Government, and I disagree with them
  • Stephen Douglas supported the concept of building a railroad to the Pacific Ocean. In 1854, he introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which would divide the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska, and would also give the people in each territory the right to decide on the the topic of slavery in their territory.
  • The Pottawatomie Massacre
  • Conflict over the decision of whether to have slavery or not escalated to the people of Kansas dividing into 2 legislatures, one pro-slavery, and the other anti-slavery.
  • Sumner V Brooks
  • Everyone in Kansas was being affected by the conflict over the decision on slavery to the point of creating 2 legislatures, so a congressional committee came to decide which was legitimate. They decided that the pro-slavery legislature was unfair, but the federal government disagreed.
  • Upon learning of the Congressional Committee's ruling, the leaders of the Pro-Slavery legislature accused the Anti-Slavery leaders of treason. They led 800 men to arrest the accused, and when they got there they learned that they had fled. Out of anger, they rioted in the city of Lawerence, and killed one person.
  • Senator Charles Sumner criticized people who were pro-slavery, and also mocked Pickens Butler. Preston Brooks, a relative of Butler, took offense to the mockery, and decided to beat Sumner unconscious with a walking stick in May 1856.
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