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Protest, Resistance, & Violence Chapter 10 Section 2

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Protest, Resistance, & Violence

Chapter 10 Section 2

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I Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad

• Fugitive Slave Act– Alleged fugitives not entitled to trial by jury &

cannot testify on own behalf– Fed commissioners who enforced the law were

given $10 for every returned slave and $5 if fugitive was freed

– Anyone convicted of helping fugitive $1,000 fine and 6 months in prison

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A. Resisting the Law• 9 N states passed

personal liberty laws– Forbid the imprisonment

of runaway slaves• N lawyers dragged out

trials to increase ct. charges for southerners

• S was angry at N resistance to the law

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B. Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad

• Escaping meant traveling on foot to north through forests and rivers

• Underground RR= secret network of ppl including free AF AM and abolitionists who hide fugitive slaves and help them N– “conductors” his, fed, & directed

fugitives to next “station”• Harriet Tubman= 1 of the most

famous conductors who was born a slave but escaped

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C. Uncle Tom’s Cabin• Harriet Beecher Stowe

published Uncle Tom’s Cabin– Delivered message that

slavery was not just pol. But also moral struggle

• Increased N abolitionist protests against FSA

• S claims book attacks the South as a whole

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II Tensions in Kansas and Nebraska• Tensions intensified after issue of slavery in

the terr. Resurfaced• Comp of 1850 was supposed to solve it

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A. Douglas and Popular Sovereignty• Douglas proposed splitting up terr. Into

Nebraska and Kansas• Wants to build RR from Chicago to San Fran– 1st had to make deal w/ southerners who wanted

the RR in the south• Believed that pop sov would solve wuestion of

slavery in Nebraska terr. But it laid above Mizzou Comp line (no slave above line)

• Assumed it would eter as 2 states (1 free & 1 slave) to preserve balance

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B. Kansas Nebraska Act• Douglas introduces

bill that would divide area into 2 terr (Nebraska & Kansas)– If passed would

repeal the Mizzou Comp and establish pop sov

• Kansas-Nebraska act gets passed and dissolves Mizzou Comp

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II “Bleeding Kansas”• Ppl from N and S poured into Kansas to race

for possession of Kansas• Kansas pop reaches # to make const. and

apply for statehood• Fraudulent voters from Mizzou cross border

and vote illegally– Pro slavery leg. Passed

• Abolitionists refuse to recognize new state const. and set up their own sep. gov’t

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A. “Sack of Lawrence”• Anti slavery settler found town named Lawrence• Proslavery posse go to Lawrence, destroy, loot

houses and businesses• Abolitionist newspapers call the event the “sack f

Lawrence”

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B. “the Pottawatomie Massacre”• John Brown was anti slavery

fanatic believed god called him to fight slavery– Set on revenge for “sack of

Lawrence”• He and his sons kidnap 5 pro

slavery men, take the to Pottawatomie Creek, and execute them

• Incidents spark many moreterr called “Bleeding Kansas”

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C. Violence in the Senate• Senator Sumner made speech in which heh

attacks his colleagues for supporting slavery – Focuses on senator Butler

• Butlers nephew congressmen Brook was angers by Sumners attack on his uncle and the Sbeat Sumner over head with cane until it broke

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• Southerners send Brooks new canes in show of support

• Northerners leave his seat empty as a tribute and cite the attack as proof of southern brutality

• N and S grow further apart