{"id":2665,"date":"2024-01-21T15:56:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T15:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/?page_id=2665"},"modified":"2024-02-15T17:34:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T17:34:40","slug":"kansas-territory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/kansas-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Timeline<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>1820 \/\/ Missouri Compromise<\/li>\n<li>1854 \/\/ Kansas &#8211; Nebraska Act<\/li>\n<li>1855 \/\/ (March) Territorial elections in Kansas<\/li>\n<li>1855 \/\/ (Summer) Free Staters organize in Topeka<\/li>\n<li>1855-6 \/\/ (Winter) Wakarusa War<\/li>\n<li>1856 \/\/ (May) Sack of Lawrence and Pottawattomie Massacre<\/li>\n<li>1856 \/\/ (May) Caning of Charles Sumner<\/li>\n<li>1856 \/\/ (November) James Buchanan elected president<\/li>\n<li>1857 \/\/ (December) Buchanan endorses Lecompton Constitution<\/li>\n<li>1858 \/\/ (May) English Bill passes offering new Lecompton vote<\/li>\n<li>1858 \/\/ (August) Lecompton referendum fails<\/li>\n<li>1861 \/\/ Kansas enters union as free state<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QYP854GAPAU?si=Ytd9pNFbtUODpLAL\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bleeding Kansas was a violent clash over slavery in a place that had few slaves. From the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the settlement of Kansas Territory had less to do with whether slavery was viable economically in that locale than with the balance of political power between the North and the South, between free labor and slave labor systems. People in both sections convinced themselves that far more was at stake than mere power. They believed that the fate of liberty for the nation and of the honor of their section was under attack. These convictions made resolution of the conflict more difficult and raised the importance of Bleeding Kansas until it became a national crisis.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com\/bleeding-kansas.html\">Nicole Etcheson<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>From House Divided Project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The major political parties in the United States both collapsed during the 1850s. \u00a0The Whigs actually disappeared from American politics, though most of their members (such as \u00a0Abraham Lincoln) soon reinvented themselves as Republicans. \u00a0By contrast, the Democratic Party (claiming Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson as guiding spirits) endured but not without significant change. \u00a0Democrats faced enormous internal upheaval during 1850s, sparked principally by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. \u00a0Students should be able to explain why this legislation created such a \u201chell of a storm\u201d to borrow the words of its author, Senator\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/5585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen A. Douglas<\/a>\u00a0of Illinois. \u00a0They should also be able to summarize how the partisan realignment and what was known as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/9597\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cBleeding Kansas<\/a>\u201d altered the national political equation.\u00a0The story is complicated because in addition to the surging anti-Nebraska movement (which ultimately became the Republican Party), there was yet another powerful grassroots organization that addressed an entirely different controversy. \u00a0Students should be able to describe the rise and fall of the American or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/9591\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Know Nothing Party<\/a>. \u00a0What did these nativists care about and why? \u00a0How powerful did they become? \u00a0Why didn\u2019t they become the majority party in the North? \u00a0One way to answer these questions would be to consider how Dickinson graduate\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/5252\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Buchanan<\/a>\u00a0(Class of 1809) won the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/9598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">election of 1856<\/a>\u00a0and how his subsequent feud with Senator Douglas over the so-called \u201cLecompton Constitution\u201d completed the rupture of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TqZJc7B8xsc?si=UBs6HyjSf47tbW8T\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timeline 1820 \/\/ Missouri Compromise 1854 \/\/ Kansas &#8211; Nebraska Act 1855 \/\/ (March) Territorial elections in Kansas 1855 \/\/ (Summer) Free Staters organize in Topeka 1855-6 \/\/ (Winter) Wakarusa War 1856 \/\/ (May) Sack of Lawrence and Pottawattomie Massacre 1856 \/\/ (May) Caning of Charles Sumner 1856 \/\/ (November) James Buchanan elected president 1857 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2665","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2665\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}