SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
DRED SCOTT
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Bleeding Kansas and Raid on Harper’s Ferry
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Bleeding Kansas and Bleeding Sumner
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Founding the Republican Party and the Election of 1860
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Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Detailed explanation-1: -Radical abolitionists, like John Brown, attacked and murdered white southerners in protest. A pro-slavery US Senator, Preston Brooks, viciously beat abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the Senate. Bleeding Kansas foreshadowed the violence that would ensue over the future of slavery during the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-2: -Rival territorial governments, election fraud, and squabbles over land claims all contributed to the violence of this era. Three distinct political groups occupied Kansas: pro-slavery, Free-Staters and abolitionists.
Detailed explanation-3: -The most horrific incident occurred in late May 1856 when one night abolitionist fanatic John Brown and his sons forced five southerners from their homes along the Pottawatomie Creek and murdered them in cold blood.