HW#20
Compromise of 1850
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____________ admitted as a ______ state
____ _________ and ______ territory organized on basis of __________
______________ (the people in the states will vote to decide.)
___________ ________ ____ made federal government responsible for
catching & returning escaped slaves
Slave trade (but not slavery) ________ in _________________
End of the Missouri Compromise
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Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
• The remaining Louisiana territory was split into ___ territories
(_______ and __________) and organized on basis of __________
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Fight, fight, fight! in Congress
• Charles _________, a Senator from Massachusetts _________ the
authors of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Senators Stephen Douglas and
Andrew Butler in a _________ he delivered in the Senate.
• Sumner also made fun of Butler's speaking ability, which had been
impeded by a recent _________…
• Representative Preston Brooks, Butler’s cousin was infuriated and
decided to defend his cousin by ________ Summer with his walking
_____. Summer almost ______ from the beating.
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1850
Sounds like a good idea, BUT…
• ____________ (poor farmers who couldn’t compete with plantation slaveowners) and ___________ were not able to come to an agreement…
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“Bleeding Kansas”: the disagreement turned into a ________ _______
with _____ and murder
John Brown
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Involved in the Underground Railroad
Moves to Kansas to support the anti-slavery cause
Turns to ___________ by organizing the _________ of ___ proslavery
settlers.
John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry
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Planned a raid on a Federal _________
Wanted to give __________ to ________
Didn’t happen: Brown and his men were _________ and ______ within
36 hours
Brown was ___________