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Chapter 10 Section 2

Chapter 10 Section 2. Mounting Violence . In 1831 Nat Turner led a slave uprising in Virginia and raised tensions to an all time high. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 about a slave and his overseer changed the Northern outlook on slavery.

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Chapter 10 Section 2

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  1. Chapter 10 Section 2 Mounting Violence

  2. In 1831 Nat Turner led a slave uprising in Virginia and raised tensions to an all time high

  3. Uncle Tom’s Cabin written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 about a slave and his overseer changed the Northern outlook on slavery

  4. Uncle Tom’s Cabin continued The South tried to have the book banned but it sold millions of copies and had a huge impact.

  5. Frederick Douglas was one of the most adamant opponents to the Fugitive Slave Act The movement gave rise to the Underground Railroad Members of the movement were called conductors One of the most famous was Harriet Tubman

  6. Transcontinental Railroad Sectional disagreements moved West with the settlers who remained pro North or pro South Many began to push for a Transcontinental Railroad to make travel to the West quicker and easier

  7. Southern Rail • In 1853 James Gadsden convinced Mexico to agree to accept $10 million for the territory known as the Gadsden Purchase • The land today is a 30,000 square mile strip of southern Arizona and New Mexico

  8. Northern Rail • Democrat Stephen A. Douglas wanted a northern route that began in Chicago • Congress would first need to organize the territory west of Missouri and Iowa

  9. Douglas prepared a bill in 1853 to call the territory Nebraska

  10. How is a railroad connected to slavery? • Southerners refused to sign the bill unless the Missouri Compromise was repealed and slavery was allowed in the territory • To please southerners, Douglas pushed for the new territory to have popular sovereignty

  11. Kansas-Nebraska Act • The Kansas-Nebraska Act divided the region into Kansas in the South and Nebraska in the North

  12. Kansas-Nebraska Act continued • The act also repealed the Missouri Compromise • In 1856 Kansas became the scene of a territorial civil war known as “Bleeding Kansas” • “Border ruffians” help elect (illegally?) a pro-slavery state legislature. • Kansas ends up with two elected governments and two state constitutions.

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