1. The crisis turns violent
Chapter 16.2

2. Antislavery in Literature
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin published in 1852
Highlighted ‘evils’ of slavery and how the Fugitive Slave Act was unfair
H.B. Stowe’s novel showed slavery in such a way, it became a moral issue rather than just a political one
REACTIONS

3. Kansas-Nebraska act
1854: Senator Stephen Douglas introduces legislation to set up an official government in the Nebraska Territory
Fearing Southern reactions to yet another free state, he proposed the division
of the Nebraska Territory.
This would create Kansas and Nebraska territories. Popular sovereignty would issued.

6. Northern vs. Southern Reactions
Northerners:
Slavery could spread in areas that had been free for over 30 years
Furious that the Kansas-Nebraska Act would repeal the Missouri Compromise
“criminal betrayal of precious rights”
Southerners:
They believed that slave owners and supporters of slavery would move into Kansas from Missouri in the hope it would become a slave state.

7. Bleeding Kansas: Border ruffians
Pro-slavery & Antislavery fought for control of the territory of Kansas
Famers moved in to purchase cheap farmland and most of them were not slave owners
Missouri proslavery groups would ride into Kansas and vote illegally in order to elect a slave supporting legislature.
What was the legislature?’
Antislavery groups elected their OWN legislature and Governor in retaliation, which created 2 governments in Kansas

8. John Brown and Guerrilla warfare
John Brown: Abolitionist who murdered 5 proslavery settlers in Kansas
Guerrilla Warfare: Hit and Run Tactics
What other wars has guerrilla warfare been used?