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Rising National Tensions 1850-1860

Abolitionism Spread in North Frederick Douglass: runaway slave who became abolitionist leader William Lloyd Garrison: editor of abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator Underground Railroad: elaborate network of white abolitionists, free blacks and slaves (not only Harriet Tubman)

Compromise of 1850 California wanted to be a free state As a compromise, California would enter the Union as a free state with the condition that Utah and New Mexico would vote on slavery Fugitive Slave Law – meant to appease South, many Northerners felt it turned them into slave-catchers

Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 People in Nebraska Territory would vote on whether to have slavery or not (popular sovereignty). Freesoilers (poor farmers who couldn’t compete with slave-owners), and pro-slavery forces streamed in Mini civil war: “Bleeding Kansas”

Political Cartoon, 1856

John Brown Abolitionist Involved in the Underground Railroad Moved to Kansas to support the anti-slavery cause Responded to violence by pro-slavery men by organizing the murder of 5 proslavery settlers: Pottowatomie Creek Massacre

John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry Brown planned a raid on a federal arsenal He wanted to distribute weapons to slaves Action failed. Brown and his men were mostly captured or killed within 36 hours Brown was ultimately hanged

Abraham Lincoln called Brown a “misguided fanatic.” John Brown

Central Historical Question: Was John Brown a “misguided fanatic”?