Section 2: the Crisis Deepens (Pages 446-449)

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U.S. History – Chapter 15 Reading Guide

Section 2: The Crisis Deepens (pages 446-449)

THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

1. The 1850 law that helped slaveholders recapture runaway slaves and return them to their owners was called ______. 2. People accused of being fugitives could be held without an ______, and had no right to a ______. 3. Instead of a judge ruling on each case, a federal ______ruled on each case, receiving ____ dollars for releasing the defendant, or ______dollars for turning the defendant over to the slaveholder. 4. The Fugitive Slave ______Northerners to help runaway slaves, and placed fines and ______on people who helped fugitives escape. 5. The presence of ______made Northerners realize they could no longer ______the issue of slavery. 6. Harriet Beecher Stowe published ______in 1852. The book was popular in the North, but not in the ______, because they felt it ______the South and slavery.

THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT

1. In 1854, Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois proposed that the Nebraska ______be divided into two territories - ______and ______. 2. He suggested that the decision to allow slavery in these territories be settled by ______, which is a system where residents ______to decide an issue. 3. When the bill passed, it did away with the ______, and allowed people to vote for slavery in areas that had ______it. The bill became known as the ______Act, and would soon turn Kansas into a ______over slavery.

“BLEEDING KANSAS”

1. At the time of the election in March, 1855, there were more ______settlers than antislavery settlers. But proslavery settlers did not want to ______the election, so ______Missourians came and voted ______in the election. The official Kansas legislature was now packed with ______representatives. 2. ______settlers boycotted the official government and formed their own government. Both sides ______themselves. A proslavery mob attacked Lawrence Kansas, destroying office and house of the ______. 3. An extreme abolitionist, ______, led an attack on proslavery neighbors, and ______5 people. The violence continued for 3 years, and the territory came to be called “______.”

VIOLENCE IN CONGRESS

1. In late May, 1856, Senator ______of Massasschusetts, spoke against the proslavery forces in Kansas, including ______Butler, senator from South Carolina. 2. He was attacked by ______, a relative of A.P. Butler. Sumner was hit more than _____ times by Brooks, who broke his ______in the process. 3. “______” and “______” became rallying cries that led to the creation of the ______Party.