14.2

 Harriet Beecher Stowe  Propaganda  Stephen Douglas  John Brown

 The hope that Henry Clay’s compromise will settle the dispute over the issue of slavery begins to fall apart.

NORTH  California becomes a free state  Banned Slave trade in Washington, DC  Fugitive Slave Act will be enforced  Popular Sovereignty will decide question of slavery in the Mexican Cession

 Government officials could arrest any person accused or being a runaway slave  North citizens must assist in the capture of a fugitive slave

 Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe  She wrote “something to make this whole nation feel what an accursed thing slavery is”  Bestseller in the North  Many Southerners thought this book as propaganda  4tEReHOM 4tEReHOM  Page

 1854 encouraged by Stephen Douglas of Illinois  Purpose to get a railroad from Illinois to Nebraska territory  Proposed dividing land North of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 line: Latitude line  Kansas and Nebraska territory  New states to be agreed through popular soveignty  Southerners loved it! Why?  Northerners hated it!  President Pierce signs it into action for prospertity

 Douglas and Pierce the settling of the Kansas and Nebraska Act will “forever banish from the halls of Congress”  But, OH HOW WRONG

 Kansas wanted to come into the Union as a Free State  Many proslavery and antislavery advocates fled into Kansas territory so they can vote on the issue of slavery  Missourians were determined to make Kansas a slave state  Voting was protested by Antislavery when the slave government was elected

 Fighting between anti-slavery groups and Pro- slavery groups breaks out  People were killed which is why it is called “Bleeding Kansas”.

 Anti-slavery advocate  Murdered five Pro-slavery people  This set up breakout of violence on both sides  Blood was shed

 In a speech in Congress, Sumner speaks out against Pro-Slavery and focuses his speech on Andrew Butler, a Senator from South Carolina  Butler’s nephew comes into the Senate chamber a few days later and cane-whips Sumner injuring him seriously  Many Southerners felt like Sumner got what he deserved  Some even sent Butler canes to show support  Took Sumner 2 years before he was well enough to come back o the Senate  Now blood is being shed over slavery in Congress  Must we deal with the elephant now?