HIST 1311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Henry Ward Beecher, David Rice Atchison, Preston Brooks
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The creator of the republican party founded in 1854. Who oppose the expansion of slavery and the kansas nebraska act. Thousands of people will flee to kansas in order to use popular sovereignty to determine if the state would become slave or free state. He pushes people to become or who are pro slavery to move to. Slavery wins and very easily but the votes were corrupt making the proslavery vote four times greater than the residents who actually voted. He se(cid:374)t (cid:862)bee(cid:272)her bi(cid:271)les(cid:863) also k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:374) as (cid:449)eapo(cid:374)s i(cid:374) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h it (cid:272)auses the bleeding kansas causing us residents to fight each other over religion, personal ideology, and slavery. He did(cid:374)"t just (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e that sla(cid:448)es should (cid:271)e free (cid:271)ut to do a(cid:374)ythi(cid:374)g to free slavery even taking methods of terrorist. A movement from john brown increasing violence and killing others that are against anti-slavery. Sack of lawrence, ks 21 may 1856.
