Etcheson, Nicole. Lawrence: The University Press of Kansas, Fellman, Michael. Fess, Simeon D. Holt, Michael. The Political Crisis of the s. New York, NY: Wiley, Rawley, James A. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Roseboom, Eugene H.
The Civil War Era: DeCaro, Louis A. Dee, Christine, ed. Athens: Ohio University Press, Most of the violence was relatively unorganized, small scale violence, yet it led to mass feelings of terror within the territory.
The most horrific incident occurred in late May when one night abolitionist fanatic John Brown and his sons forced five southerners from their homes along the Pottawatomie Creek and murdered them in cold blood. Republicans used Bleeding Kansas as a powerful rhetorical weapon in the Election to garner support among northerners by arguing that the Democrats clearly sided with the pro-slavery forces perpetrating this violence.
In reality, both sides engaged in acts of violence—neither party was innocent. The violence surrounding Bleeding Kansas even made its way to Washington D.
Sumner also made personal and insulting remarks against the two Senators. On May 22, , in retaliation for the degrading remarks made against his cousin, Brooks entered the Senate chambers and accosted Sumner at his desk, beating him with a cane until Sumner was a bloody unconscious pulp.
The canning of Sumner inspired intense polarizing reactions. In general, southerners were overjoyed that someone finally stood up and defended southern honor against the perceived encroaching abolitionist sentiment that increasingly threatened their societal foundation: slavery.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, northerners were absolutely horrified over what they viewed as an egregious and violent expression of the slave power against northerners which would only continue unless the slave power was stopped.
Douglas in a series of seven debates. Thousands of spectators and newspaper reporters from around the country watched as Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries people were kidnapped from the continent of Africa, forced into slavery in the American colonies and exploited to work as indentured servants and labor in the production of crops such as tobacco and cotton.
By the midth century, An ambiguous, controversial concept, Jacksonian Democracy in the strictest sense refers simply to the ascendancy of Andrew Jackson and the Democratic party after In , amid growing sectional tensions over the issue of slavery, the U.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act. Andrew Carnegie. Most settlers who had come to Kansas from the North and the South only wanted to homestead in peace. They were not interested in the conflict over slavery, but they found themselves in the midst of a battleground.
Violence erupted throughout the territory. Southerners were driven by the rhetoric of leaders such as David Atchison, a Missouri senator. Atchison proclaimed the Northerners to be "negro thieves" and "abolitionist tyrants.
In fact, abolitionists were in the minority. Most of the Free State settlers were part of a movement called Free Soil, which demanded free territory for free white people. They hated slavery, but not out of concern for the slaves themselves. They hated it because plantations took over the land and prevented white working people from having their own homesteads. They hated it because it brought large numbers of black people wherever it went.
The Free Staters voted 1, to to outlaw black people, slave or free, from Kansas. Their territory would be white. As the two factions struggled for control of the territory, tensions increased. In the proslavery territorial capital was moved to Lecompton, a town only 12 miles from Lawrence, a Free State stronghold.
In April of that year a three-man congressional investigating committee arrived in Lecompton to look into the Kansas troubles. The majority report of the committee found the elections to be fraudulent, and said that the free state government represented the will of the majority.
The federal government refused to follow its recommendations, however, and continued to recognized the proslavery legislature as the legitimate government of Kansas. There had been several attacks during this time, primarily of proslavery against Free State men. People were tarred and feathered, kidnapped, killed. But now the violence escalated. On May 21, , a group of proslavery men entered Lawrence, where they burned the Free State Hotel, destroyed two printing presses, and ransacked homes and stores.
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