“Bleeding Kansas” pages 425-428
A. Summarize the main points of the section.
B. In your opinion, in what ways did the growing violence predict the coming of the Civil War? Examine the cases of Lawrence, Kansas; John Brown’s raid at Pottawatomie Creek; and, the Sumner-Brooks affair in your response.
3. The Dred Scott Decision pages 430-432
A. Summarize the main points of the section.
B. In your opinion, what does the decision tell us about the U.S. in the 1850s and the “uproar” the decision created?