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Date Posted: 23:29:24 11/07/02 Thu
Author: Bezzzath
Subject: Ch 13 "Bleeding Kansas"

Bleeding Kansas
A. Events in Kansas increased political turmoil in the North
1. White settlers from both North are south more there
a. There were only 1,500 legal voters and there were 6,000 voters
i. This was caused by Missourians coming into make it a slave state
b. This make the free states mad
i. So they wanted to have their own delegates and petition congress for statehood

2. They didn’t get it, President Pierce was pro-slavery.
a. Mostly Missourians marched across the free- states to capture the free-states leaders
B. Pottawomie Massacre
1. Beyond the free states there was a man named John Brown
a. He said that he was a tool of god to destroy slavery
b. They move to Kansas to make it a free state.
2. He gathered six followers including his four sons, but also murdered five pro-slavery settlers.
C. Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner
1. Charles Sumner gave a speech about “The Crime Against Kansas”
2. Brooks, a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina.
a. Approached Sumner and started beating him, he had such strength to fight back
3. Both were seen as heroes
a. Brooks in the south
b. And Sumner in the North

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