The Sectional Crisis:The Sectional Crisis:“Bleeding Kansas”“Bleeding Kansas”

Mr. BachHudson High School

Accelerated United States History

Kansas-Nebraska Act Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)(1854)

The Birth of the The Birth of the Republican PartyRepublican Party

• Northern Whigs• Northern

Democrats• American Party

(“Know Nothings”)

• Free Soilers

Republican Party Republican Party PlatformPlatform

• Agricultural development of the West (Market Economy)

• Internal improvements to aid the economy

• Land-Grants (Homestead)

• Tariffs for Northern industry

Lincoln the Rail Splitter

“Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men”

““Bleeding Kansas”Bleeding Kansas”

John Brown – The Bible in one hand, a gun in the other

The Slave Power Reveals The Slave Power Reveals ItselfItself

Preston Brooks (SC) canes Charles Sumner (MA) on the Senate Floor