conflict over slavery in the 1850s: the crisis grows chapter 10 section 2
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Opposition to Slavery Intensifies By the mid-1800s, slavery was a national issue. Every American from the North, the South, and the West had an opinion.TRANSCRIPT
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Conflict Over Slavery in the 1850s: The Crisis Grows
Chapter 10 Section 2
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• Analyze why the Fugitive Slave Act increased tensions between the North and South.
• Assess how the Kansas-Nebraska Act was seen differently by the North and South.
• Explain why fighting broke out in Kansas and the effects of that conflict.
Objectives
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Opposition to Slavery Intensifies
• By the mid-1800s, slavery was a national issue. Every American from the North, the South, and the 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.
• Nullified the Fugitive Act• Enabled state officials to
arrest slave catchers for kidnapping free African Americans
• Increased northern white support of abolitionism
Some Northern states passed personal liberty laws. These laws
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• White abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which gave readers compassion for the nonviolent enslaved Tom.
• Black abolitionist Martin Delany wrote Blake in which enslaved Blake chooses to rebel violently against slavery.
Popular novels condemned slavery, gaining northern support for abolition and infuriating the South.
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•Tensions greatly increased between the North and the South as:
• African Americans increased their resistance• The abolitionist movement grew stronger in the
North and West• The question of whether a new territory should
become a slave or free state arose again in the Nebraska territory
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Kansas-Nebraska Act• The legislation divided the
Nebraska territory into Kansas and Nebraska. Residents of each territory would vote to allow or outlaw slavery.
• In effect, it nullified the Missouri Compromise by allowing slavery to spread in areas where it had been banned.
• Northerners and Southerners went to Kansas to influence the vote.
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• Proslavery residents from Missouri, know as Border Ruffians, attacked the antislavery town of Lawrence.
• Northern abolitionist John Brown responded by killing five proslavery settlers.
• Both sides armed for battle.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act set off violence between proslavery and antislavery forces in Kansas.
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•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 in the Senate
• Violence over the slavery issue broke out on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Southern Representative Preston Brooks badly beat Northern Senator Charles Sumner with a cane.