1. Road to War

2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• She wanted to bring the plight of slave
families to public attention
• One of the most influential novels ever
written
• It was banned by State government in the
South

3. Harriet Beecher Stowe

5. Kansas Nebraska Act
• Proposed by Stephen Douglas
• Applied popular sovereignty to the territories
of Kansas and Nebraska.
• People rushed to the territories so they could
vote

7. Stephen Douglas

8. Bleeding Kansas
• A series of three events that brought national
attention to Kansas.

9. 1. Sack of Lawrence
• A group of pro-slavery attacked
Lawrence, Kansas which was an anti-slavery
town.

10. 2. Sumner-Brooks Episode
• Happened in Washington DC
• Senator Charles Sumner delivered an angry
speech about the fighting in Kansas
• In his speech he attacked South Carolina
senator
• A different South Carolina representative
Preston Brooks beat Sumner with a cane

12. Sumner
Brooks

13. 3. Pottawatomie Creek Massacre
• John Brown and four of his sons attacked
slavery families on the Creek.
• Killed 5 men
• Escaped persecution

14. John Brown 1856

15. Dred Scott Decision
• Dred Scott was suing for his freedom because
he and his master lived for a time in
Illinois, which was a free territory.
• Roger Taney, chief justice of the Supreme
Court, ruled that Scott was not a citizen and
had no right to sue.

16. Dred Scott

17. Roger Taney

18. John Brown
• He wanted to incite a slave revolt in the South
• He wanted to establish a state for free slaves

19. Harpers Ferry, Virginia
• Brown and 21 men attacked the federal
arsenal on October 16, 1859
• He hoped to provide weapons for his slave
revolt
• Robert E Lee was dispatched to retake the
arsenal and capture Brown

20. John Brown’s Fort

22. Inside John Brown’s Fort

24. John Brown 1859

25. • Brown was convicted of murder and treason
• Hanged on December 2, 1859