The Impact of the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 upon Kansas from 1854 to 1861 Brent Goodwin July 20, 2

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The Impact of the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854
upon Kansas from 1854 to 1861Brent
GoodwinJuly 20, 2006
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Goal

• Students will learn about the passage of the
  Kansas Nebraska Act and understand characters and
  the sequence of events in Kansas from 1854 until
  statehood in 1861

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Kansas History Benchmark Standard Benchmark
2Indicators 1,2, and 3
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History Standard

• The student uses a working knowledge and
  understanding of significant individuals, groups,
  ideas, events, eras, and developments in the
  history of Kansas, the United States, and the
  world, utilizing essential analytical and
  research skills

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Benchmark Indicators

• 1. (A) describes the concept of popular
  sovereignty under the Kansas-Nebraska Act and its
  impact on developing a state constitution.
• 2.?(K) describes how the dispute over slavery
  shaped life in Kansas Territory (e.g., border
  ruffians, bushwhackers, jayhawkers, the
  Underground Railroad, free-staters,
  abolitionists).
• 3. (A) analyzes the importance of Bleeding
  Kansas to the rest of the United States in the
  years leading up to the Civil War (e.g., national
  media attention, caning of Senator Charles
  Sumner, Emigrant Aid Societies, Beecher Bible and
  Rifle Colony, poems of John Greenleaf Whittier,
  John Brown).

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Related Vocabulary

• Expansionist-A person that believed that the
  United States Should Expand its borders
• Popular Sovereignty-The belief that the people
  living in a territory should decide for
  themselves if the territory should become a slave
  state or free state
• Repealed-Revoked. The Missouri Compromise was
  repealed with the passage of the Kansas Nebraska
  Act

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Vocabulary (Continued)

• Proslavery-People that were in favor of slavery
  and believed that Kansas should become a slave
  state
• Antislavery-People that were not in favor of
  slavery and believed that Kansas should become a
  free state
• Abolitionists-A radical that thought that slavery
  should be abolished or done away with because it
  was immoral
• Land Speculators-People that obtained land in
  Kansas with the hopes of buying it at a low price
  and selling it at a high Price

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Vocabulary Continued

• Freesoiler-A person who came to Kansas after the
  passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
• Border Ruffian- A person who was in favor of
  slavery and came across the border from Missouri
  to vote illegally in elections

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Missouri Compromise of 1820
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2 Provisions of the Missouri Compromise

• Missouri Would become a slave state
• Any other states added after Missouri that were
  north of 36 degrees latitude would become free
  states.

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The Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854

• It repealed the Missouri Compromise
• It included the Idea of Popular Sovereignty
• It was drawn up by a senator by the name of
  Stephen Douglass

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Stephen A Douglass
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Impact of the Kansas Nebraska Act

• Proslavery people and the Antislavery people
  started to fight with each other over the issue
  of slavery
• The Proslavers wanted to vote to make sure Kansas
  would become a slave state
• The Antislavery people wanted to vote to make
  sure Kansas would become a free state
• Freesoilers came to Kansas in hopes of making
  Kansas a free state

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Impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Bleeding Kansas-This was the term that refers to
  the disagreement between the antislavers and the
  proslavers over control of Kansas

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Proslavers and Antislavers take action shortly
after the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

• The northern states organize groups of people to
  move to Kansas. These people became known as
  freesoilers. Their only reason for moving to
  Kansas was to make sure Kansas would become a
  free state
• Missouri organized what became known as Border
  Ruffians to come across the border and vote
  illegally in elections.

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Kansas had 2 territorial governments in 1857-1858

• Proslavers organized their government at Shawnee
  Mission
• Antislavers organized their government at
  Lawrence
• Each claimed to be the legitimate or correct
  government of Kansas and thought the other should
  not be there

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Bleeding Kansas Begins

• Samuel Jones-Proslavery Sheriff who burned
  Lawrence in 1855
• In the Wakarusa War, homes and businesses were
  burned along with the free-state Hotel. Several
  people were killed

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Violence Continues

• John Brown-A fanatical Abolitionist who Killed 5
  Proslavery settlers on the Pottawatomie Creek in
  eastern Kansas

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During the time that Kansas was a territory,
there were 2 Territorial Governments

• Topeka-This was where the free state government
  was located
• Shawnee Mission-This was where the proslavery
  government was located
• Neither government thought the other should be
  there

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Who wins the Battle of Bleeding Kansas

• Eventually there were enough people that had
  moved into Kansas as a result of the
  Kansas-Nebraska Act that the government at
  Shawnee Mission was voted out of office

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Kansas Becomes a Free State

• On January 29, 1861, Kansas became the 34th state
• The free State Constitution was also called the
  Wyandotte Constitution
• The development of Kansas as a state was delayed
  because of the Civil War

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Ways this lesson will be incorporated into the
Unit, which will be part of Chapter 5.

• Students take notes as teacher gives the lesson
  through the powerpoint.
• From the notes, students make a chronological
  timeline of the events that we have discussed.
• Students take a CPS practice Test over the
  information covered in the lesson