Bleeding Kansas
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Bleeding Kansas
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• Outbreak of violence in the Kansas and Nebraska territory over Popular Sovereignty over the slavery
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Election of Lincoln
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• 1860 election of a republican president who had moderate views on slavery.
• Southerners feared he would take away slavery.
• Lincoln did not gain a single electoral vote in the south.
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Popular Sovereignty
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•Allowing a vote to decide an issue
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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• Takes back the Missouri Compromise• A state could decide if would be a free or slave
state by a popular vote when it applied for statehood
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Compromise of 1850
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• California enters as a free state• Popular sovereignty decides Utah and New
Mexico territories• Fugitive Slave Law
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Fugitive Slave Act
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• People were required to return all runaway slaves or face prosecution
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John Brown
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• Abolitionist who was arrested for a raid on the Harper’s Ferry armory. Wanted to lead a slave revolt.
• Was a participant in Bleeding Kansas• Also led “John Brown’s Raid”
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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• Wrote the book: Uncle Tom’s Cabin• This was about the life a of slave in the south.• Highly controversial and angered many
southerners
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secede
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• To break away
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Scott vs Sanford
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Dred Scott, a slave sues for his freedom after living in free territory for some time. His case was denied on the fact he was considered property and not a personAngers many abolitionists because it says slavery is allowed in all states.