Transcript GROWINGSECTIONALCONFLICT.pptx

GROWING SECTIONAL CONFLICT
1850-1861
1. COMPROMISE OVER SLAVERY
-Missouri Compromise no longer satisfied
anyone
a. Compromise of 1850 - California wanted
to enter as a free state.
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California enters as a free state
no buying of slaves in Washington, DC
Popular sovereignty in Mexican Cession
Stricter Fugitive Slave law
Fugitive Slave law was highly resented by
Northerners.
b. Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
1. request was made for popular
sovereignty which would make Missouri
Compromise void.
2. Violent out outcome - “Bleeding
Kansas” - both factions fought
with each other - mini civil war
within the states.
3. Voters picked free state status
4. John Brown enters the scene
c. Abolitionist movement:
1. Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom’s
Cabin. 1852
2. Harriet Tubman - “Moses of her people”
Underground railroad
3. Frederick Douglas - brilliant orator
edited - “The North Star”
4. William Lloyd Garrison - edited “The
Liberator”
5. John Brown - Harper’s Ferry, Va. 1859