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The Pottawatomie Creek Massacre- Sam Wellington

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The Pottawatomie Creek Massacre- Sam Wellington

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-The Sack of Lawrence and Pottawatomie resulted in a guerrilla war in Kansas and 200 people ended up being killed by 1856.
-Millions of dollars in damage
-Federal troops were sent to calm the fighting but there weren't enough troops to effectively stop it.
-Kansas became an area for catastrophe and engulfed the nation within 5 years from then.

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- Peace convention was held on June 15, 1858, but it ended in a riot
-  The new legislature passed harsh laws that punished or killed people who opposed slavery.
- Anti-slavery residents eventually organized under the name Free Soilers, and formed a separate government in Topeka.

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- Kansas was going to be governed by popular sovereignty, so the issue of slavery was highly debated in the area.
- Because the states surrounding Kansas were slave states, they wanted it to be a slave state as well.

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- Supporters of slavery from Missouri were marched into Kansas to vote at the polls for a pro-slavery representative.
- They were led by Senator David Atchison
- They were known as the "Border Ruffians" because they threatened to hurt or even kill those who opposed slavery.

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The Sack of Lawrence, Aid in Violence - Cristian Puhlovsky

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The Sack of Lawrence, Aid in Violence - Cristian Puhlovsky

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1. Abolitionists from New England would send money,  and boxes of rifles disguised as "Beecher's Bibles" to anti- slavery forces
2. The "Bibles" were named after Henry Ward Beecher who was an anti- slavery speaker who said that a rifle might be a more effective moral agent in Kansas than a Bible

Each side had guns and a passion strong enough to use them.

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Representative Preston Brooks
- Southerners in the nineteenth century were raised to live by an unwritten code of honor
-Brooks proceeded to strike Sumner over the head repeatedly with a gold-tipped cane.
-The cane shattered as Brooks rained blow after blow on the hapless Sumner, but Brooks could not be stopped
-Charles Sumner spent years recovering from the attack.
-Brooks was levied a $300 fine for the assault.
--The violence from Kansas had spilled over into the national legislature.

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The Pottawatomie Creek Massacre- Sam Wellington

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The Pottawatomie Creek Massacre- Sam Wellington

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- A massacre that occurred when five men were taken from their cabins and killed by John Brown and his sons.
- This massacre followed only days after the Sack of Lawrence.
-Brown and his squad went into Pottawatomie Creek, which was a pro-slavery town.
-They raided the houses, took people out of their homes, and killed them.
-As a result of the massacre the South was angry and hunted down Brown and his men
-His two sons were found and arrested
-Brown escaped to the north and was taken in by abolitionists, he was never heard from again until he made national headlines in 1859

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The Crime Against Kansas
Senator Charles Sumner, who was an avowed abolitionist and leader of the Republican party, made a bitter speech called the Crime Against Kansas which blasted the murderous robbers from Missouri
Sumner Made a Bold Statement
Sumner declared Butler an imbecile and said, "Senator Butler has chosen a mistress. I mean the harlot, slavery." During the speech, Stephen Douglas leaned over to a colleague and said, "that damn fool will get himself killed by some other damn fool." Charles Sumner made this speech for a whole 2 days.

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The Sack of Lawrence, Background - Cristian Puhlovsky

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The Sack of Lawrence, Background - Cristian Puhlovsky

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1. Lawrence was the main Anti- Slavery movement in Kansas
2. Named after Amos Lawrence, a financier from New England who provided aid to Anti- Slavery settlers and farmers