1. Protest, Resistance,
and Violence
Mr. hammill

2. FRIDAY WARM-UP Writing Prompt # 5
The year is 1850, Imagine for that you are an abolitionist in Boston and a runaway slave is knocking on your door for help. What do you do? What will be the consequences?

3. Fugitive Slaves & The Underground Railroad
Anthony Burns returned to slavery in Virginia
Fugitive Slave Act (Compromise of 1850)
Nine states passed personal liberty laws
- guaranteed slaves jury trial
Harriet Tubman & The Underground Railroad
- 19 trips to the South
- helped 300 slaves to freedom

5. FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT - a law that said slaves could be arrested without an arrest warrant and brought back to their owner in the South

6. The Fugitive Slave Act brought the issue of slavery to the North
Northerners sent fugitives to Canada

8. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD – hiding places

9. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

10. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

11. Video of Condition of Slaves

12. Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sold more than a million copies in 2 yrs.
Simon Legree whips
Uncle Tom to death
North protest FSL
South says book gives
slavery a false picture
Book shows slavery as
a moral problem

13. President Lincoln once met her and said: “So, you’re the lady that started this whole war.”

14. Kansas-Nebraska Act
I. The Nebraska Territory was divided into two parts: Nebraska (NE) and Kansas (KS).

15. Kansas-Nebraska Act
II. The people of each territory voted on whether or not to allow slavery. (popular sovereignty)

16. The Kansas-Nebraska Act violated the Missouri Compromise
* The Kansas-Nebraska Act violated the Missouri Compromise. Both territories were north of 36 , 30’ N and should NOT have been allowed to have slaves.

17. BLEEDING
KANSAS
Many people voted illegally and fights break out in Kansas - this becomes known as “BLEEDING KANSAS”
An attack on Lawrence becomes known as the “Sack of Lawrence”

18. “Bleeding Kansas”
Before the vote on slavery:
• Northerners crossed the border to keep KS a free state.
• Southerners crossed the border to make KS a slave state.
• Both sides claimed victory on the vote!

19. The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Introduced by Stephen A. Douglas
Turn the territory into two
- Kansas & Nebraska
- base it on popular sovereignty
- would repeal the Missouri Compromise
Northern view: turn territory into slave
states
90% of Southerners voted for the bill
Act passed in May 1854

20. Result:
People for and against slavery now moved to this area to be able to vote on this issue

21. Anti-Slavery forces establish Lawrence - Pro-slavery forces destroy the town - Abolitionist newspaper quoted it as “ The Sack of Lawrence”

22. The Pottawatomie Massacre - Abolitionist John Brown believes God wants him to fight slavery - Brown’s followers violently kill 5 men Violence in the Senate - Senator Charles Sumner verbally attacks colleagues (slavery) - Congressman Preston S. Brooks beats Sumner for insulting his uncle - Southerners applaud Brooks; Northerners condemn him

23. Artwork inspired by John Brown at the Robert Frazier Gallery on Troost

24. Sumner getting a beat down! inspired b

26. The End