Bleeding Kansas
• Outbreak of violence in the Kansas and Nebraska territory over Popular Sovereignty over the slavery
Election of Lincoln
• 1860 election of a republican president who had moderate views on slavery.
• Southerners feared he would take away slavery.
• Lincoln did not gain a single electoral vote in the south.
Popular Sovereignty
•Allowing a vote to decide an issue
Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Takes back the Missouri Compromise• A state could decide if would be a free or slave
state by a popular vote when it applied for statehood
Compromise of 1850
• California enters as a free state• Popular sovereignty decides Utah and New
Mexico territories• Fugitive Slave Law
Fugitive Slave Act
• People were required to return all runaway slaves or face prosecution
John Brown
• Abolitionist who was arrested for a raid on the Harper’s Ferry armory. Wanted to lead a slave revolt.
• Was a participant in Bleeding Kansas• Also led “John Brown’s Raid”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Wrote the book: Uncle Tom’s Cabin• This was about the life a of slave in the south.• Highly controversial and angered many
southerners
secede
• To break away
Scott vs Sanford
Dred Scott, a slave sues for his freedom after living in free territory for some time. His case was denied on the fact he was considered property and not a personAngers many abolitionists because it says slavery is allowed in all states.