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Mounting Violence

Mounting Violence. The Fugitive Slave Act to Bleeding Kansas. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Harriet Beecher Stowe. First published in 1852 Sold 300,000 copies in its first year Reactions in the North and South Why do some historians see this book as a cause of the Civil War?. Fugitive Slave Act.

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Mounting Violence

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  1. Mounting Violence The Fugitive Slave Act to Bleeding Kansas

  2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe • First published in 1852 • Sold 300,000 copies in its first year • Reactions in the North and South • Why do some historians see this book as a cause of the Civil War?

  3. Fugitive Slave Act • Slave owners could demand the return of slaves and send bounty hunter to return slaves by force. • Federal magistrates and marshals were required to aid in the return of escaped slaves. • Northerners could be compelled to aid in the capture of escaped slaves. • Northern resistance grew in intensity ranging from civil disobedience to violence.

  4. Underground Railroad • Unofficial system used to aid escaped slaves find freedom in the North or Canada • Conductors gave food shelter and transportation • Harriet Tubman

  5. Gadsden Purchase • Sec. of War Jefferson Davis sent James Gadsden to purchase land from Mexico • 1853 Mexico sold the land to the US for $10 million • Stephen Douglas and the Nebraska territory

  6. Bleeding Kansas • Douglas managed to pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act. • The act split the Nebraska territory forming the Kansas and Nebraska territories • Pro and Anti Slavery supporters crossed the Kansas border • Two separate state governments were elected in Kansas in March 1856

  7. Bleeding Kansas • In 1855 “border ruffians” crossed over from Missouri and illegally voted in the election • Border ruffians attacked the city of Lawrence, Kansas • By 1856 Over 200 people and $2 million in property damage

  8. John Brown’s Raid • Oct. 16, 1859 John Brown, a radical abolitionist from Kansas, tried to seize the arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Va. • The raid was defeated by marines led by Robert E. Lee after only 36 hours. • Brown was tried for treason. • Executed on Dec. 2, 1859.

  9. “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.”

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