Pottawatomie Massacre - 1856
Key Figures:
-John Brown -devoted abolitionist - leads his followers into the attack, initiates violence and schemes
What happened?
John Brown led his followers into Pottawatomie Creek and kills five proslaveryites
-Brown and followers wanted revenge from the attack on the town of Lawrence
-Part of Bleeding Kansas
What did it lead into?
-Sparks violence and eventually Bleeding Kansas/War
-Stirs anger and hatred from the South
-Antagonism between sections grow
-John Brown -devoted abolitionist - leads his followers into the attack, initiates violence and schemes
What happened?
John Brown led his followers into Pottawatomie Creek and kills five proslaveryites
-Brown and followers wanted revenge from the attack on the town of Lawrence
-Part of Bleeding Kansas
What did it lead into?
-Sparks violence and eventually Bleeding Kansas/War
-Stirs anger and hatred from the South
-Antagonism between sections grow
Bleeding Kansas - 1856
Key Figures:
John Brown- stirred violence with the Pottawatomie Massacre / inspired free-soilers and abolitionists, caused heated antagonism and hostility between Northerners and Southerners
Why did it happen? (CAUSE)
-Tension mounts from the Kansas Elections. Settlers also argue over land claims.
-Finally breaks when a group of proslaveryites burned the town of Lawrence (free-soil land)
-Increasing hostility between Northerners and Southerners - cannot all live in Kansas together
What happened?
-Kansas Civil War
-The proslaveryites produce the Lecompton Constitution - if slavery is voted against, slave owners would still be protected. In the end, it slavery would exist in Kansas no matter what
-Supported by James Buchanan
-Not passed by popular vote
What did it lead into? (EFFECT)
-James Buchanan's democratic party splits
-Sectionalism/antagonism grows - continues until the Civil War
-Hostility in Senate - Charles Sumner vs Preston S. Brooks - shows how passionate North and South were becoming on the issue of slavery - becoming more serious
-John Brown's raid
John Brown- stirred violence with the Pottawatomie Massacre / inspired free-soilers and abolitionists, caused heated antagonism and hostility between Northerners and Southerners
Why did it happen? (CAUSE)
-Tension mounts from the Kansas Elections. Settlers also argue over land claims.
-Finally breaks when a group of proslaveryites burned the town of Lawrence (free-soil land)
-Increasing hostility between Northerners and Southerners - cannot all live in Kansas together
What happened?
-Kansas Civil War
-The proslaveryites produce the Lecompton Constitution - if slavery is voted against, slave owners would still be protected. In the end, it slavery would exist in Kansas no matter what
-Supported by James Buchanan
-Not passed by popular vote
What did it lead into? (EFFECT)
-James Buchanan's democratic party splits
-Sectionalism/antagonism grows - continues until the Civil War
-Hostility in Senate - Charles Sumner vs Preston S. Brooks - shows how passionate North and South were becoming on the issue of slavery - becoming more serious
-John Brown's raid