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Tensions Deepen

Tensions Deepen. Reaction to Fugitive Slave Act. The Fugitive Slave Act caused more people to join the cause of abolition. Harriet Beecher Stowe , an abolitionist , like many was upset by the Fugitive Slave Act Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin showing the cruelty of slavery and how it was wrong.

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Tensions Deepen

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  1. Tensions Deepen

  2. Reaction to Fugitive Slave Act • The Fugitive Slave Act caused more people to join the cause of abolition. • Harriet Beecher Stowe, an abolitionist, like many was upset by the Fugitive Slave Act • Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin showing the cruelty of slavery and how it was wrong.

  3. Kansas-Nebraska • Kansas-Nebraska Act: introduced two new states (Kansas and Nebraska) by Stephen A. Douglas • To satisfy the South, Douglas called for popular sovereignty (people vote to decide) in territories on the issue of slavery.

  4. Bleeding Kansas • Allowing popular sovereignty, Kansas is thrown into chaos • Pro-Slavery people come with their slaves from Missouri • Abolitionists move their families there to vote down slavery • Neither side agrees on a government • Violence erupted and people were killed as a result

  5. The Early Civil War • Pro-slavery and anti-slavery peoples in Kansas fought for years • In Congress, Senator Charles Sumner spoke against the pro slavery forces in Kansas. • In turn, a pro slavery Congressman Preston Brooks attacked Sumner with a cane.

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