Guided Reading Activity 15-2

Outlining

I. The Fugitive Slave Law  1. All citizens had to help catch runaways  2. the Underground Railroad  3. Harriet Beecher Stowe  4. that it was a brutal and cruel system

II. The Kansas-Nebraska Act      A.

1. to encourage settlement of the West and open the way for a transcontinental railroad 2. He knew that Southerners would object to having Kansas and Nebraska become free states, giving the North the advantage in the Senate 3. Popular Sovereignty B. May 1854

III. Conflict in Kansas      A.

1. A proslavery legislature was elected 2. thousands of armed proslavery supporters from Missouri who crossed the border to vote in the Kansa election B. John Brown C. the Brooks-Sumner incident, in which Preston Brooks, a House representative, repeatedly struk Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts over the head and shoulders with a cane