The Fugitive Slave Act

Chap 15 Sec 2 Notes

The Crisis Deepens The Fugitive Slave Act • ______helps slaveholders recapture runaway slaves • Fugitives can be held ______arrest warrant, no right to jury trial • Southerners feel the act justified, slaves considered ______• Northerners resent the act because it requires them to support slavery • Face moral choice, ______law, slavery or ______law, slavery Uncle Tom’s Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes book, ______(1852) • Expresses moral issues about slavery • Stowe’s book is popular in ______• Southerners feel book ______criticizes the South, slavery The Kansas-Nebraska Act • Stephen A. Douglas drafts bill for governing the ______• Divides territory into two territories: Nebraska, Kansas • Slavery issue to be decided by residents’ vote—______• Allows vote for slavery in area where ______banned it • South supports bill, becomes law known as ______“Bleeding Kansas” • ______, ______settlers rush into Kansas Territory • Want vote for territorial legislation in the election of March, 1855 • At time of election, more proslavery than anti-slavery settlers • ______proslavery Missourians vote in election ______• Kansas legislature packed with proslavery representatives Continued “Bleeding Kansas” • Antislavery settlers boycott official government, form own government • Proslavery mob attacks Lawrence, Kansas, destroys: - antislavery ______- house of antislavery ______• Attack known as ______• Abolitionist ______retaliates by murdering 5 proslavery people • Attack known as Pottawatomie Massacre • Civil war breaks out in Kansas, territory called “______” Violence in Congress • Senator ______speech attacks proslavery forces in Kansas • Speech makes fun of A. P. Butler, senator from South Carolina • A relative of Butler, Preston Brooks, attacks Sumner in the Senate • Southerners cheer Brooks’s defense of the South • Northerners shocked at the ______in the Senate