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Objectives
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Analyze why the Fugitive Slave Act increased
tensions between the North and South.
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Assess how the Kansas-Nebraska Act was seen
differently by the North and South.
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Explain why fighting broke out in Kansas and
the effects of that conflict.
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Terms and People
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personal liberty laws – laws passed in the
North that nullified the Fugitive Slave Act
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Underground Railroad – a secret network of
people who helped slaves escape the South
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Harriet Tubman – a woman who led slaves into
freedom through the Underground Railroad
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Harriet Beecher Stowe – wrote a best-selling
novel that condemned slavery
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Kansas-Nebraska Act – divided Nebraska region
into two territories, giving voters in each area the
right to decide whether or not to allow slavery
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John Brown – a New York abolitionist who used
violence
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“Bleeding Kansas”– term used to describe
Kansas, where there was violence between
proslavery and antislavery supporters
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How did the Fugitive Slave Act and the
Kansas-Nebraska Act increase tensions
between the North and the South?
The Compromise of 1850 resolved the slavery
issues only for a short time.
The slavery issue turned violent with the passage
of the Fugitive Slave Law and the Kansas-Nebraska
Act.
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By the mid-1800s, the
issue of slavery was a
national issue in which
every American - North,
South, and West, had
an opinion.
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The Fugitive
Slave Act,
part of the
Compromise
of 1850,
required all
citizens to
catch and
return runaway
slaves.
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Some
Northern
states passed
personal
liberty laws.
These laws:
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nullified the Fugitive
Slave Act.
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enabled state officials to
arrest slave catchers for
kidnapping free African
Americans.
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increased northern
white support of
abolitionism.
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Free blacks and
Northern abolitionists
organized an escape
network called the
Underground
Railroad.
The map shows the routes “conductors”
used to lead enslaved blacks to freedom.
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A fugitive slave from
Maryland, Harriet
Tubman, was called the
“Black Moses” because
she led so many people
to freedom on the
Underground Railroad.
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Popular novels condemned slavery, gaining
northern support for abolition and infuriating
the South.
• White abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe
wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin that gave readers
compassion for the nonviolent enslaved Tom.
• Black abolitionist Martin Delany wrote Blake in
which the enslaved Blake chooses to rebel
violently against slavery.
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Tensions greatly increased between the
North and the South as:
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African Americans increased their resistance.
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the abolitionist movement grew stronger in the
North and West.
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the question of whether a new territory should
become a slave or free state arose again.
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KansasNebraska
Act
was enacted
in the spring
of 1854.
• The legislation divided
Nebraska territory into two
separate areas.
• Residents of both Kansas and
Nebraska voted to allow or
outlaw slavery.
• Congress assumed Kansas
would become a slave state
and Nebraska a free state.
• Northerners and Southerners
went to Kansas to influence
the vote.
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Passage
of the Act
set off
violence
between
Northerners
and
Southerners.
• Pro-slavery Southern Border
Ruffians from Missouri
attacked the anti-slavery
town of Lawrence, Kansas.
• Northern abolitionist
John Brown
responded by killing
five pro-slavery settlers.
• Both sides armed and
readied for battle.
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Describing the violence
in Kansas, reporters
called the territory
“Bleeding Kansas.”
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The dispute over Kansas:
The South wanted Kansas to be a slave state.
The North wanted Kansas to be a free state.
In 1861, after the
Civil War started,
Kansas joined the
Union as a free state.
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Violence over the
slavery issue broke out
in the U.S. Senate.
Southern Representative
Brooks badly beat
Northern Senator
Sumner.
The national tension over slavery grew wider and
deeper, with violence spreading even to Congress.
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