1. Protesting Slavery

2. The Fugitive Slave Laws
Passed in 1850
Enforcement guaranteed by the Compromise of 1850
Terms 1. 2. 3.

3. Runaway Slave Ads, 1850s

4. Northern Reaction 1. Personal Liberty Laws
2. Working to free slaves peacefully
3. violence in the border states

5. Personal Liberty Laws, 1855
1. Series of laws passed to protect freed slaves and free blacks in the North
2. What were they meant to do?
Restrict slave catchers
Undermine federal government
3. Where were they enforced?

6. Freeing peacefully 1. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Effects on: message The reader
The abolitionists
The southerners
Stereotypes

7. 2. The Underground Railroad
How did slaves travel on it?
How did runaway slaves know where to go?
Role of Harriet Tubman

8. Violence in the Border States
1. The Creation of Kansas and Nebraska
1844: Discussion to organize Nebraska and Kansas
The issue of the Missouri Compromise

9. Kansas Nebraska Act, 1854
Passed under Franklin Pierce
Terms 1. 2.

10. Slave owners v. Abolitionists
“The Sack of Lawrence”
The Pottawatomie Massacre
In the senate