Protest, Resistance, and Violence
Fugitive Slaves + Underground Railroad Fugitive Slave Act No 6th Amendment rights Right to speedy trial Could not testify on their own behalf Began sending slaves to Canada for safety Started passing personal liberty laws Forbade imprisonment of runaway slaves and guaranteed they would have jury trials Fugitive Slaves + Underground Railroad
Underground Railroad White abolitionists began helping slaves escape Secret network known as Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman = famous “conductor” Followed the North Star Underground Railroad
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Book published by Harriet Beecher Stowe Story about slavery being both political contest and moral struggle Millions of copies sold Increased Northern abolitionist protests Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Tension in Kansas and Nebraska Compromise of 1850 does not work Slavery in territories resurfaces Stephen Douglas resurrects the dispute Pushed for two territories (Nebraska and Kansas) Thought Popular Sovereignty was good idea Nebraska above Missouri Compromise line Had to gain Southern support Repeal Missouri Compromise but caused chaos in gov’t Tension in Kansas and Nebraska
Proposed bill to divide the area into two territories Split into Nebraska and Kansas and give them popular sovereignty Caused huge debate (90% Southerners vote yes) Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas Race for possession of Kansas Slave state or not Settlers from both north and south move there Missouri slave owners migrate into Kansas and set up pro-slavery gov’t Anti-slave people take refuge in Lawrence Fighting broke out between slave/anti-slavery John Brown leads revenge Pottawatomie Massacre Fighting becomes known as Bleeding Kansas Bleeding Kansas