1. Unit 16.2 The Crisis Turns Violent
Mr. Davis

2. Anti-Slavery Ban
In 1852 Harriett Beecher Stowe published her anti-slavery novel called Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
The purpose of this novel was to demonstrate the evils of slavery and the injustice of the Fugitive Slave Act.

3. Anti-Slavery Ban
In the first two days, her novel sold 5,000 copies, in the first year it sold over 300,000 copies.
Later a play was created.

4. Anti-Slavery Ban
The novel was very popular in the North, but not so much within the South.

5. Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas proposed a new bill to set up a government for the Nebraska Territory.

6. Kansas-Nebraska Act
Because Nebraska would become a new free state and southerners would be outraged, Douglas proposed that the territory of Nebraska be divided into two: Kansas and Nebraska.
With this proposal, the settlers in the territory would decide the issue of slavery.

8. Southerners supported this act
Southerners supported this act. They believed that with the states next to the territory, Missouri in particular, that the new states would become slave states.
With this bill being supported and pushed through Congress, Douglas did not know that he lit the fire for more division.

9. Because the Missouri Compromise had already banned slavery, Northerners were outraged because this new act would repeal, or undo, the original compromise.

10. Overall, with this new act it would allow slavery in states that had been free for more than 30 years.

11. Bleeding Kansas
Kansas became the new testing ground for popular sovereignty.
Douglas wished that settlers would decide the issue of slavery on election day peacefully, the opposite happened.

12. Bleeding Kansas
Anti and Pro-Slavery forces sent settlers to Kansas to fight over the issue.
The main reason that Kansas became so popular was because Kansas had cheap land and good farming lands.

13. In 1855 a group called the Border Ruffians crossed into Kansas and voted illegally.
The result was a proslavery state.

14. With this win for proslavery groups, many antislavery groups became angered.
The antislavery settlers refused to accept this slave state and created their own government, splitting Kansas.

15. A group of proslavery men attacked the town of Lawrence.
John Brown decided to strike back and murdered five men in the middle of the night.
Both sides used guerrilla warfare (hit and run tactics).

16. The Dred Scott Case
The Supreme Court was then asked to settle the slavery issue again and restore peace.
The court case that was first brought to the Supreme Court was Dred Scott in 1857.

17. The Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott moved from place to place with his owner and ended up in Wisconsin with his owner.
The court case that was first brought to the Supreme Court was Dred Scott in

18. Dred Scott moved from place to place with his owner and ended up in Wisconsin (a free state)with his owner.
When Scott’s master died however, they were in Missouri, a slave state.
Antislavery lawyers pushed for a lawsuit.

19. The Supreme Court decided that Scott could not file a lawsuit because he was an enslaved person, not a citizen.
Again, however, the court decided that Congress did not have any power to outlaw slavery.

20. With this decision, it angered many northerners because it meant that slavery was legal, technically, in all territories.

21. “We are not one great…slaveholding community…”
A newspaper in Cincinnati
“Where will it all end?”
A newspaper in New England