41: Kansas! (Bleeding Kansas, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, & Caning of Charles Sumner)

History That Doesn't Suck

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🗓️ 24 June 2019

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“We can send five thousand--enough to kill every God-damned abolitionist in the Territory.” This is the story of the Civil War’s warm up. The States are increasingly dividing along northern and southern (anti-slavery and pro-slavery) lines, and this tension is coming out in spades in Kansas. Northerners want to see it become a free state; Southerners want it to be a slave state. The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act is meant to produce a meaningful compromise, but it seems to only make things worse! Terrible violence is breaking out: Missourian “Border Ruffians” are illegally voting in Kansas and ruffing up Free state supporters; southern Congressman Preston Brooks beats northern US Senator Charles Sumner nearly to death in the Senate chambers, and abolitionist John Brown is hacking men to death with a broadsword! Meanwhile, Dred Scott’s suing for his freedom. It isn’t going to go well, and this is only more fuel for America’s raging fire. Peace--or what’s left of it--can’t last. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.8	Welcome to history that doesn't suck.
1:09.2	I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story.
1:15.1	It is the rape of a virgin territory, compelling it to hateful embrace of slavery.
1:21.9	Yes, sir, when the whole world, Christian and Turk is rising up to condemn this wrong and
1:28.7	to make it a hissing to the nations, here, in our Republic.
1:33.5	Force, I, sir, force has been openly employed in compelling Kansas to this pollution and
1:41.3	all for the sake of political power.
1:44.5	Charles Summoner's sharp words rattle, friend and foe alike in the semi-circle-shaped
1:49.5	Senate chambers.
1:52.0	As you can see, the Massachusetts Senator with flowing brown hair and short but thick
1:57.0	mutton chops is here to fight.
1:59.7	With his words, that is, he isn't one for physical combat.
2:03.6	The fiery abolitionist Republican is livid about the Kansas Nebraska Act, which has sparked
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