Exam Question on Kansas Nebraska

Question 1

What percentage of Northern Congressmen opposed the Kansas Nebraska Act?

Answer 1

91%

Question 2

Salmon Chase description of the Kansas Nebraska Act and why?

Answer 2

‘gross violation of a sacred pledge’ as it repealed the Missouri Compromise.
He was an abolitionist

Question 3

Douglas interpretation of the Kansas Nebraska Act?

Answer 3

It would bring ‘a hell of a storm’

Question 4

Who delivered a sermon on the Slave Power Conspiracy after the Kansas Nebraska Act?

Answer 4

Theodore Parker

Question 5

Limitations of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Answer 5

• 90% of Southern politicians argued for
• 64% of Northern politicians argued against

Other Acts (such as the Missouri compromise) instigated Slave Power Conspiracy.
- 1854 vs 1850

Question 6

Refer back to Kansas Nebraska in Kansas Nebraska para?

Answer 6

• William Henry Seward led normal people South = ‘we will engage in competition for virgin soil of Kansas’

Ordinary people moved to Kansas in April 1854 via the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society.

Question 7

Arguments for 1850 Compromise?

Answer 7

Uncle Tom’s Cabin:
- 2 million copies sold
- Potter historian ‘ ‘never quite the same after Uncle Tom’s Cabin’
Fugitive Slave Act:
- ‘It outlaws me, and I outlaw it’ - Loguen (minister in Syracuse, New York)

Question 8

Arguments against 1850 Compromise?

Answer 8

Nashville Conference June 1850
- 9 slave states met but 6 did not
President Filmore in 1851 ‘final and irrevocable’
Southerners countered this by importing 250,000 slaves before Civil War illegally. Ignoring that slave trade was banned in Washington D.C. Franklin - ‘the law went unenforced’

Question 9

Link to KN Act in 1850 Compromise?

Answer 9

Passive resistance:
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Boston Slave Riot (50,000 people lined the streets yelling ‘shame’ to the courthouse as Anthony walked to the ship to Virginia.

KN Act - ordinary people engage in mass violence:
John Brown commemorated in the north.
- 5 pro-slavery people killed
- He was executed
Currier & Ives print version made in 1870 ‘John Brown, the Martyr’ – hand-coloured lithograph

Question 10

Bleeding sumner effects?

Answer 10

Massachusetts antislavery Congressman Charles Sumner
- ‘The Crime Against Kansas 19-20 May 1856
- Criticised slave holders and institution. Kansas as a free state.
- Attacked with a cane brutally by Congressman Preston Brooks.

Question 11

Limitations to Bleeding Sumner?

Answer 11

Mentioned tariffs
- Tariff of abomination in 1828

Reaction to occurrences before 1850.

Question 12

Refer back to Kansas Nebraska in Bleeding Sumner?

Answer 12

• Catalysed by bleeding Kansas
• Main focus of the speech was the spread of slavery.
  ‘The rebellion will die at once’
• His return in 1859 focused on preventing the spread of slavery as he had attempted in ‘The Crime Against Kansas’