The Crisis Deepens The issue of Slavery led to Acts of Violence and the formation of the Republican Party and more sectional tension

Key Vocabulary and Key Figures Key Terms  Uncle Tom’s Cabin  Fugitive Slave Act  Popular Sovereignty  Kansas-Nebraska Act Key Figures  Harriet Beecher Stowe  John Brown

The Final Act  The Fugitive Slave Act makes it easier to return runaway slaves to their former owners  Slaves were held without trial and a federal commissioner ruled on each case with monetary rewards  The North opposed the act as it made them help recapture slaves and led to free Africans being captured into slavery  The presence of slave catchers made the north face the decision of following the act or breaking the law to oppose slavery

Acting Up  With the Fugitive Slave Act and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s cabin leading to Tension, The Issue of Kansas and Nebraska would Bring Violence  Stephen A. Douglas drafted a Bill to allow popular sovereignty decide the issue of slavery in the states  The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri compromise and turn Kansas into a Battlefield

The Civil War…A Prequel  After the Act was passed Proslavery voters from Missouri illegally voted to pass slavery in Kansas  Anti-slavery forces in Kansas formed their own government in Kansas and armed themselves  The pro-slavery forces attacked the Anti-slavery government leading John Brown to Kansas  Brown would Murder five pro-slavery people and led to three years of civil war in Kansas

Main Event Fight  When Charles Sumner delivered a speech against slavery in congress, pro-slavery members felt insulted  Preston Brooks Would Defend his relative A. P. Butler by attacking Sumner with his Cane  The Attacks in Kansas and in Congress would further divide the North in the South

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