HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Napoleonic Wars, Preston Brooks, Millard Fillmore
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Crisis of the union i. ii. iii. iv. v. As kansas pop inscreses call a election to determin wethere it would be a free or slave stste. In massori 1000 cross thr border to illegally vote. The guv of missori was infavour of this. Guv of cansas says no legit lets hold another 1. When it tries to set up oit is turned away by kansas pro slavery legislature already set up. Now the anti slavery sets them self up in a town down ythe road. We now have 2 diff legislatures in 1 state ready to fight against eachother for legitimacy. In nov 1855 anti slaver member is murdered. Physicalviolence breaks out in the senate in washington. Charles summer(abolitionist in favour of full and equal rights(one of the few men at this time to speak out b4 the civil war)) in 1856 gives a speech called the crime against kansas.
