Bleeding Kansas

At the beginning of class, 2 questions were assigned to us:"What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act and how did they contradict the Missouri Compromise?" and "Identify how antislavery and proslavery supporters reacted to the Kansas-Nebraska Act." Then Mr.Armstrong showed us how people of the south and north saw and thought about things such as the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the fugitive slave law. By doing this most people got a clearer understanding of how the people felt at that time. (And it was more enjoyable.) We then went in depth about how bleeding Kansas all started with the construction of a railroad in Chicago and how Stephan A. Douglas made the Act to get votes from the south to do so. However, since whether a state would become a slave state or a no-slave state all depended on the people, many southerners and northerners began to move there. So when it became voting time, only about 20 out of 600 people were actually legal residents. However, the southerners won and it became a slave state, wich angered the north so they built another government, ignoring the one already existing. So Kansas had two different governments. The results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was two opposing goverments in one state, illegal voting, Pattawatomie (John Brown), Preston Brooks beating Sumner with a cane, and the attack on Lawrence. At the end of class, i had a clearer understanding of the conflict between the south and the north.
- Jiwon C. 8D