6. Free-soilers from Kansas voted against slavery Thousands of pro-slavery Missouri residents crossed the border & voted for slavery The vote revealed a pro-slavery victory which led to a violent civil war in Kansas This incident became known as “Bleeding Kansas”
7. “ Bleeding Sumner” SC Senator Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner because of a speech Sumner had made criticizing President Pierce & Southerners who supported the the pro-slavery violence in Kansas
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13. “ A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free .” —Abraham Lincoln, 1858
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15. John Brown: Northern Martyr or Southern Villain? John Brown the Martyr
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Lesson Plan for Friday, Oct 31, 2008: RQ 15A, Pierce & Buchanan videos, A Nation Divided notes
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