APUSH: Period 5.6 failure of compromise

the kansas-nebraska act plan

-divide kansas into two territories

-settle slavery by popular sovereignty

What would require the appeal of the missouri compromise?

the kansas-nebraska act

Who push the kansas act through congress?

Stephen Douglas

Who was angered by the kansas-nebraska act?

the free soilers and northerners

what ere the effects of the K-N act

-northerners felt betrayed and stopped enforcing the fugitive slave act

-shattered dem. party

-gave birth to rep. party

What did the southerners do to try and make kansas a slave state?

they sent in "border ruffians" to vote illegally for slavery in kansas

bleeding kansas

john brown and his five sons murdered five men for the anti-slavery cause

-led to civil war in kansas

john brown

-fanatical abolitionist

-moved his family to kansas to vote against slavery

senator charles sumner

-leading abolitionist from Massachusetts

-"the crime against kansas speech"

the crime against kansas speech

-condemned proslavery men

-insulted s.c. and one of its senators andrew butler

congressman Preston S. Brooks

beat sumner at his senate desk

northern reaction to te fight

-condemned brooks

-thousands of copies of sumner's speech were sold

southern reaction

-anger at the positive reaction of the north

democratic platform for the election of 1856

support for popular sovereignty

republican platform for the election of 1856

opposed further extension of slavery into the territories

outcome for the election of 1856

-dem: James Buchanan

Why were many northerners intimidated into voting for Buchanan?

southerners threatened sucession

the dred scott decision

dred scott, a slave, sued for his freem. his master took him into a free state for 5 years so no state was technically a free state.

supreme court ruling

-slaves were not citizens and could not sue

-slaves could be legally taken into any territory

-the missouri compromise and the 36 30 line was unconstitutional

reaction to the dred scott deciision

-southerners were estatic

-popular sovereignty supporters, free soilers, and republicans were furious

-rep. threatened to defy ruling, which angered the south

Harpers ferry raid

-goal: spark a revolt

-failed attempt to seize a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia

-brown, who started to revolt, was put to death

effects of the raid

north: moderates disliked him and abolitionists loves him

south: fueled anti-northern anger and suspicion