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Compromise

Compromise. 14.2. Key Terms and People. Harriet Beecher Stowe Propaganda Stephen Douglas John Brown. `Why it Matters`. The hope that Henry Clay’s compromise will settle the dispute over the issue of slavery begins to fall apart. . The Compromise of 1850. North.

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Compromise

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  1. Compromise 14.2

  2. Key Terms and People • Harriet Beecher Stowe • Propaganda • Stephen Douglas • John Brown

  3. `Why it Matters` • The hope that Henry Clay’s compromise will settle the dispute over the issue of slavery begins to fall apart.

  4. The Compromise of 1850 North • California becomes a free state • Banned Slave trade in Washington, DC • Fugitive Slave Act will be enforced • Popular Sovereignty will decide question of slavery in the Mexican Cession

  5. Fugitive Slave Act • Government officials could arrest any person accused or being a runaway slave • North citizens must assist in the capture of a fugitive slave

  6. Outrage in the North • Fugitive Slave Law is very controversial part of the Compromise of 1850. • Many runaway slaves were sent back to the South even if they had runaway and lived as a freed person for years • Many runaway slaves fled to Canada (no slavery in Canada, or Britain) • Even Freedmen went to Canada • Why?

  7. Uncle Tom’s Cabin • Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe • She wrote “something to make this whole nation feel what an accursed thing slavery is” • Bestseller in the North • Many Southerners thought this book as propaganda • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL-4tEReHOM • Page 492-493

  8. The Kansas Nebraska Act • 1854 encouraged by Stephen Douglas of Illinois • Purpose to get a railroad from Illinois to Nebraska territory • Proposed dividing land North of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 line: 36.30 Latitude line • Kansas and Nebraska territory • New states to be agreed through popular soveignty • Southerners loved it! Why? • Northerners hated it! • President Pierce signs it into action for prospertity

  9. Kansas Nebraska Act

  10. President Pierce • Douglas and Pierce the settling of the Kansas and Nebraska Act will “forever banish from the halls of Congress” • But, OH HOW WRONG

  11. Bleeding Kansas • Kansas wanted to come into the Union as a Free State • Many proslavery and antislavery advocates fled into Kansas territory so they can vote on the issue of slavery • Missourians were determined to make Kansas a slave state • Voting was protested by Antislavery when the slave government was elected

  12. Violence breaks out • Fighting between anti-slavery groups and Pro-slavery groups breaks out • People were killed which is why it is called “Bleeding Kansas”.

  13. John Brown • Anti-slavery advocate • Murdered five Pro-slavery people • This set up breakout of violence on both sides • Blood was shed

  14. Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts is attacked • In a speech in Congress, Sumner speaks out against Pro-Slavery and focuses his speech on Andrew Butler, a Senator from South Carolina • Butler’s nephew comes into the Senate chamber a few days later and cane-whips Sumner injuring him seriously • Many Southerners felt like Sumner got what he deserved • Some even sent Butler canes to show support • Took Sumner 2 years before he was well enough to come back o the Senate • Now blood is being shed over slavery in Congress • Must we deal with the elephant now?

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