1. Protest, Resistance, and Violence

2. 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

3. Underground Railroad White abolitionists began helping slaves escape
Secret network known as Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman = famous “conductor”
Followed the North Star
Underground Railroad

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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