1. GROWING SECTIONAL CONFLICT

2. COMPROMISE OVER SLAVERY
-Missouri Compromise no longer satisfied anyone
Compromise of California wanted
to enter as a free state.
1. California enters as a free state
2. no buying of slaves in Washington, DC
3. Popular sovereignty in Mexican Cession
4. Stricter Fugitive Slave law
Fugitive Slave law was highly resented by Northerners.

3. 1. request was made for popular sovereignty which would make Missouri
b. Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
1. request was made for popular
sovereignty which would make Missouri
Compromise void.
2. Violent out outcome - “Bleeding
Kansas” - both factions fought
with each other - mini civil war
within the states.
3. Voters picked free state status
4. John Brown enters the scene

4. c. Abolitionist movement:
1. Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom’s
Cabin
2. Harriet Tubman - “Moses of her people”
Underground railroad
3. Frederick Douglas - brilliant orator
edited - “The North Star”
4. William Lloyd Garrison - edited “The
Liberator”
5. John Brown - Harper’s Ferry, Va. 1859