Protesting Slavery
The Fugitive Slave Laws Passed in 1850 Enforcement guaranteed by the Compromise of 1850 Terms 1. 2. 3.
Runaway Slave Ads, 1850s
Northern Reaction 1. Personal Liberty Laws 2. Working to free slaves peacefully 3. violence in the border states
Personal Liberty Laws, 1855 1. Series of laws passed to protect freed slaves and free blacks in the North 2. What were they meant to do? Restrict slave catchers Undermine federal government 3. Where were they enforced?
Freeing peacefully 1. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Effects on: message The reader The abolitionists The southerners Stereotypes
2. The Underground Railroad How did slaves travel on it? How did runaway slaves know where to go? Role of Harriet Tubman
Violence in the Border States 1. The Creation of Kansas and Nebraska 1844: Discussion to organize Nebraska and Kansas The issue of the Missouri Compromise
Kansas Nebraska Act, 1854 Passed under Franklin Pierce Terms 1. 2.
Slave owners v. Abolitionists “The Sack of Lawrence” The Pottawatomie Massacre In the senate