1. Copy the following onto Portfolio 52
The Fugitive Slave Act
Effect
Effect
Effect

2. Lesson 15.2: The Crisis Deepens
Today we will discuss the impact of the Fugitive Slave Act on the slavery debate.

3. Vocabulary
impact – influence or effect
debate – discussion or
argument
fugitive – one who runs away
or escapes

4. What We Already Know
Disagreements over slavery led to increased tensions between the North and the South.

5. What We Already Know
California’s request for statehood led to Henry Clay’s Compromise of 1850.

6. What We Already Know
The Compromise of 1850 contained a controversial new fugitive slave law.

7. The Fugitive Slave Act No arrest warrant required
No right to jury trial; federal commissioner to rule on each case
Commissioner received $5 for releasing the defendant and $10 for turning him over to a slaveholder
Fines for those help runaway slaves
Required Northerners to help recapture runaway slaves

8. The Fugitive Slave Act
Southerners believed slaves were property and should be returned.
Northerners realized that, by supporting the Fugitive Slave Act, they were supporting slavery.
Should they obey the law and support slavery, or should they break the law and oppose slavery?

9. Meanwhile, Southern slave catchers roamed the North, sometimes capturing free African- Americans instead of runaway slaves.

10. What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
It allowed fugitive slaves to be arrested without warrants.
Officials were paid $10 for releasing the fugitive, but only $5 if he returned the fugitive to slavery.
Fugitives had no right to a jury trial.
It required that Northerners return runaway slaves to their masters.
It placed fines on people who helped runaway slaves escape.
Choose the one that is NOT true!

11. What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
It allowed fugitive slaves to be arrested without warrants.
Officials were paid $10 for releasing the fugitive, but only $5 if he returned the fugitive to slavery.
Fugitives had no right to a jury trial.
It required that Northerners return runaway slaves to their masters.
It placed fines on people who helped runaway slaves escape.
Choose the one that is NOT true!

12. 1. Why did Northerners resent the Fugitive Slave Act?
The act had been passed without any input from Northerners.
They didn’t believe black fugitives should have a right to a jury trial.
If they obeyed or enforced the act, they would be supporting slavery.
The act would lead to higher taxes in the North.

13. 1. Why did Northerners resent the Fugitive Slave Act?
The act had been passed without any input from Northerners.
They didn’t believe black fugitives should have a right to a jury trial.
If they obeyed or enforced the act, they would be supporting slavery.
The act would lead to higher taxes in the North.

14. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe was from a family that had helped runaway slaves escape.
Her brother was a preacher and a leading abolitionist.
She was outraged by the Fugitive Slave Act.

15. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Her 1852 novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, dramatically portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral.

16. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The novel includes dramatic scenes, such as the dangerous escape of a slave named Eliza and her baby across the Ohio River.
Stowe’s book was wildly popular in the North, but criticized by white Southerners as inaccurate.

17. Who was the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Margaret Chapman Howe
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Madeline Douglas Rowan
Henrietta Beckham Rowe

18. Who was the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Margaret Chapman Howe
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Madeline Douglas Rowan
Henrietta Beckham Rowe

19. 2. How did Uncle Tom’s Cabin influence national politics?
It increased abolitionist feeling in the North by showing the brutality of slavery.
It led many western states to prohibit free blacks from settling within their borders.
It caused Southerners to become angry over the lies they said it told about slavery.
It led to the creation of the Free Soil Party.
It helped convince Congress to pass the Fugitive Slave Act.
Choose all that are true!

20. 2. How did Uncle Tom’s Cabin influence national politics?
It increased abolitionist feeling in the North by showing the brutality of slavery.
It led many western states to prohibit free blacks from settling within their borders.
It caused Southerners to become angry over the lies they said it told about slavery.
It led to the creation of the Free Soil Party.
It helped convince Congress to pass the Fugitive Slave Act.
Choose all that are true!

21. Lesson 15.2: The Crisis Deepens
Today we will trace the rise of violence in the slavery debate.

22. Vocabulary debate – discussion or argument popular – of the people
sovereignty – self-rule
popular sovereignty – people ruling themselves (the majority make the rules)
repeal – to revoke or take back a law

23. What We Already Know
The admission of Missouri as a slave state in 1820 had threatened to split the country, until Henry Clay’s Missouri Compromise brought in Maine to keep the balance between slave and free states.

24. What We Already Know
The admission of California as a free state in 1850 had also threatened the peace of the nation, until Clay worked out another compromise.

25. What We Already Know
The Fugitive Slave Act and Uncle Tom’s Cabin heightened the conflicts between the North and the South.

26. What We Already Know
In the 1840s, thousands of settlers moved onto the plains west of the Mississippi River.

27. The Kansas–Nebraska Act
In 1854, Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois wanted to see a railroad built to link Chicago with California.
To make this easier, Douglas proposed the organization of two new western territories – Nebraska and Kansas.
Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois

28. Douglas said the question of slavery in these territories was to be settled by popular sovereignty, a very controversial idea.
Douglas’ idea of popular sovereignty was controversial because it would mean the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, since it would give people living north of 36º30’ a choice regarding slavery in their territory.
Southerners supported the bill, but it angered opponents of slavery.

29. The Kansas–Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act and popular sovereignty would soon turn Kansas into a battle-ground over slavery.

30. The Three Compromises

31. What was popular sovereignty?
Proposed by Senator Stephen Douglas
Violated the Compromise of 1850
Supported most strongly by Northerners
Would allow the residents of a state to decide the slavery question
Replaced the Missouri Compromise line with popular sovereignty
Choose ALL that are true!

32. What was popular sovereignty?
Proposed by Senator Stephen Douglas
Violated the Compromise of 1850
Supported most strongly by Northerners
Would allow the residents of a state to decide the slavery question
Replaced the Missouri Compromise line with popular sovereignty
Choose ALL that are true!

33. What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Strengthened the Missouri Compromise
Introduced to make it easier to build a railroad to California
Established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
Required Congress to submit future requests for statehood to the Supreme Court
Gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery
Choose ALL that are true!

34. What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Strengthened the Missouri Compromise
Introduced to make it easier to build a railroad to California
Established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
Required Congress to submit future requests for statehood to the Supreme Court
Gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery
Choose ALL that are true!

35. 3. How was the issue of slavery to be decided in Nebraska and Kansas?
It would be decided only after their residents had ratified their respective state constitutions.
It would be decided by the Supreme Court.
It would be decided on the basis of popular sovereignty, with each state's residents voting on it.
It would be decided as part of the Compromise of 1863.

36. 3. How was the issue of slavery to be decided in Nebraska and Kansas?
It would be decided only after their residents had ratified their respective state constitutions.
It would be decided by the Supreme Court.
It would be decided on the basis of popular sovereignty, with each state's residents voting on it.
It would be decided as part of the Compromise of 1863.

37. 4. Why was the Kansas–Nebraska Act controversial?
It banned slavery in all lands gained from Mexico.
It repealed the Missouri Compromise and replaced it with popular sovereignty.
It established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska , which were not yet American possessions.
It required Congress to submit future requests for statehood to the Supreme Court.

38. 4. Why was the Kansas–Nebraska Act controversial?
It banned slavery in all lands gained from Mexico.
It repealed the Missouri Compromise and replaced it with popular sovereignty.
It established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska , which were not yet American possessions.
It required Congress to submit future requests for statehood to the Supreme Court.

39. “Bleeding Kansas”
Proslavery and anti-slavery settlers rushed into the Kansas Territory to elect the territorial legislature, including 5,000 Missourians (border ruffians).

40. “Bleeding Kansas”
Antislavery settlers boycotted the pro-slavery government and formed a government of their own, as both groups of settlers armed themselves.

41. “Bleeding Kansas”
In an attack that came to be known as the Sack of Lawrence, a proslavery mob burned the anti-slavery capital at Lawrence, Kansas.

42. John Brown
Seeking revenge for the sack of Lawrence, an extreme abolitionist named John Brown and seven other antislavery men murdered five of their proslavery neighbors as they slept at a cabin near Pottawatomie Creek.

43. As news of this attack (known as the Pottawatomie Massacre) spread, civil war broke out in Kansas.

44. The violence continued for three years, and the territory came to be called “Bleeding Kansas.”

45. 5. What was the cause of “Bleeding Kansas”, in 1855?
Native Americans and white settlers battled on the wind-swept plains.
Pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces were fighting for political control of the territory.
White settlers and free black settlers competed for possession of the best farmland.
Supporters of the Dred Scott decision clashed with supporters of popular sovereignty.

46. 5. What was the cause of “Bleeding Kansas”, in 1855?
Native Americans and white settlers battled on the wind-swept plains.
Pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces were fighting for political control of the territory.
White settlers and free black settlers competed for possession of the best farmland.
Supporters of the Dred Scott decision clashed with supporters of popular sovereignty.

47. 6. Why did John Brown murder five proslavery people in Kansas?
He was angry about the Fugitive Slave Act being declared unconstitutional.
Pro-slavery men had led an assault against the federal arsenal at Topeka.
It was revenge for the proslavery attack on Lawrence, Kansas.
He was angry because Congress turned down Kansas' application for statehood.

48. 6. Why did John Brown murder five proslavery people in Kansas?
He was angry about the Fugitive Slave Act being declared unconstitutional.
Pro-slavery men had led an assault against the federal arsenal at Topeka.
It was revenge for the proslavery attack on Lawrence, Kansas.
He was angry because Congress turned down Kansas' application for statehood.

49. Violence in Congress
In late May, 1856, Massa-chusetts Senator Charles Sumner gave a rousing speech before the Senate.
In very insulting terms, he attacked the pro-slavery forces in Kansas, the institution of slavery in general, and pro-slavery Senators such as Andrew Butler of South Carolina in particular.

50. Violence in Congress
Nearby, in the House of Representatives, South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks got wind of Sumner’s speech.
Senator Butler was related to Congressman Brooks, who angrily decided he must defend the honor of his family and of the South.

51. Congressman Brooks charged into the Senate chamber and viciously beat Sumner unconscious with a cane.
Many Southerners cheered Brooks’ defense of the South, but most Northerners were shocked at such violence in the Senate.

52. “Bleeding Kansas” and “Bleeding Sumner” became rallying cries for antislavery Northerners, as well as for a new political party that was beginning to emerge.

53. 7. Why did Preston Brooks attack Charles Sumner in the Senate?
Brooks objected to Sumner's position on popular sovereignty.
Sumner made insulting remarks against proslavery forces and Brooks' relative.
of the inaccurate portrayal of slavery in Sumner's novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin.“
Sumner had criticized Brooks for supporting John Brown.

54. 7. Why did Preston Brooks attack Charles Sumner in the Senate?
Brooks objected to Sumner's position on popular sovereignty.
Sumner made insulting remarks against proslavery forces and Brooks' relative.
of the inaccurate portrayal of slavery in Sumner's novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin.“
Sumner had criticized Brooks for supporting John Brown.