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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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Douglas drafted a Bill to allow popular sovereignty decide the issue of slavery in the states  The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri compromise and turn Kansas into a Battlefield

5. 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

6. 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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