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Bleeding Kansas

Bleeding Kansas. Outbreak of violence in the Kansas and Nebraska territory over Popular Sovereignty over the slavery. Election of Lincoln. 1860 election of a republican president who had moderate views on slavery. Southerners feared he would take away slavery.

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Bleeding Kansas

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  1. Bleeding Kansas

  2. Outbreak of violence in the Kansas and Nebraska territory over Popular Sovereignty over the slavery

  3. Election of Lincoln

  4. 1860 election of a republican president who had moderate views on slavery. • Southerners feared he would take away slavery. • Lincoln did not gain a single electoral vote in the south.

  5. Popular Sovereignty

  6. Allowing a vote to decide an issue

  7. Kansas-Nebraska Act

  8. Takes back the Missouri Compromise • A state could decide if would be a free or slave state by a popular vote when it applied for statehood

  9. Compromise of 1850

  10. California enters as a free state • Popular sovereignty decides Utah and New Mexico territories • Fugitive Slave Law

  11. Fugitive Slave Act

  12. People were required to return all runaway slaves or face prosecution

  13. John Brown

  14. Abolitionist who was arrested for a raid on the Harper’s Ferry armory. Wanted to lead a slave revolt. • Was a participant in Bleeding Kansas • Also led “John Brown’s Raid”

  15. Harriet Beecher Stowe

  16. Wrote the book: Uncle Tom’s Cabin • This was about the life a of slave in the south. • Highly controversial and angered many southerners

  17. secede

  18. To break away

  19. Scott vs Sanford

  20. Dred Scott, a slave sues for his freedom after living in free territory for some time. His case was denied on the fact he was considered property and not a person Angers many abolitionists because it says slavery is allowed in all states.

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