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Bell Ringer

Directions : Answer each of these in a complete sentence! (re-stating the question). Bell Ringer. Objectives. Describe the role the Fugitive Slave Act played in the increasing tensions between the North and the South. Tell the story/background of Bleeding Kansas.

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Bell Ringer

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  1. Directions: Answer each of these in a complete sentence! (re-stating the question) Bell Ringer

  2. Objectives Describe the role the Fugitive Slave Act played in the increasing tensions between the North and the South. Tell the story/background of Bleeding Kansas. List and provide details for the 5 major political parties in the 1850’s.

  3. Resistance to Slavery Fugitive Slave Act – Northern states were now required to cooperate (there was a fugitive slave law before this, but the north did not follow it) Opposition grew out of the Fugitive Slave Act • Resistance (done legally) • 9 states passed personal liberty laws • Forbade imprisonment • Guaranteed a jury trial • Lawyers would drag out the trials to make it expensive for slave holders • Enraged southerners • “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” sparked more resistance • Resistance (done illegally) • The Underground Railroad • Harriet Tubman led many slaves north (about 300) and none were caught • Tubman had a $40,000 bounty on her head • Some slaves feared they would be caught in the US and went to Canada

  4. Slavery in the Territories The Missouri Compromise established that there would be no slavery north of the 36*30’ line. Stephen Douglas introduced a bill to Congress that would repeal that portion of the law. Kansas-Nebraska Act called for 2 states to be formed out of the Nebraska territory and for slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty (in those new states) Violence in Kansas Settlers headed to Kansas by the hundreds. Emigrant aid societies supplied weapons, seeds, tools, etc to help new settlers. These groups were anti-slavery. Many from Missouri voted illegally in the elections in Kansas, which swayed the vote to be pro-slavery.

  5. John Brown & Bleeding Kansas John Brown An abolitionist from Kansas believed that God called on him to fight slavery. On May 24th, he and his followers pulled 5 men from their beds in a pro-slavery settlement (Pottawatomie Creek), chopped off their hands and stabbed them with swords. “The Pottawatomie Massacre” Bleeding Kansas When word spread about John Brown and the massacre, dozens of incidents broke out. John Brown fled Kansas, but not before some 200 people were killed. The Kansas Territory became known as “Bleeding Kansas”

  6. Politics in the 1850’s

  7. Politics in the 1850’s Election of 1854 Republicans = John Fremont, Know Nothings = Millard Fillmore, Democrats = James Buchanan With 3 political parties, this election was very hard fought/close race. Democrats (Buchanan) won with 45% of the popular vote. Party politics was characterized by desertion and turmoil.

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