Compromises FailEQ: How did the Compromise of 1850 and Kansas-Nebraska Act fail to end the conflicts over slavery?

Bleeding Kansas

Name or Action

What part this person or act played in escalating the Kansas-Nebraska Controversy

Stephen Douglas

Eli Thayer

Voters from Missouri

Sack of Lawrence

Preston Butler

John Brown

Bleeding Kansas

Border “Ruffians”(pro-slavery Missourians)

“The Crime Against Kansas”

Sen. Charles Sumner(R-MA)

Congr. Preston Butler(D-SC)

John Brown’s Raid After the Pottawatomie

Massacre, Brown returned to New England and hatched a plot to raise an army to free slaves in the South

In 1859, he and 21 supporters (only 5 of which were AF AM) attacked the arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia

John Brown’s Raid

He hoped to arm slaves with weapon’s gathered, but was surrounded by Colonel Robert E. Lee and his troops

Ten of his men were killed and the rest were captured

Brown was convicted of murder and treason and sentenced to death by hanging

John Brown’s Raid

In his address to court he stated “. . I believe to have interfered as I have done, . . . in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it be deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit: so let it be done."

John Brown: Madman, Hero or Martyr?

Mural in the Kansas Capitol Building

by John Stuart Curry (20c)