Social Studies Chapter 15 Section 2
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Why did Stephen Douglas propose organizing the region west of Missouri and Iowa as territories of Kansas and Nebraska?
He was trying to work out a way for the nation to expand that both the North and the South would accept.
Who led an attack on Pottawatomie Creek to retaliate for the attack on Lawrence?
John Brown
What did Uncle Tom's Cabin show about slavery?
that it was a brutal, cruel system
What did antislavery people do in response to the proslavery laws passed by the new Kansas legislature?
Armed themselves, held their own elections, and adopted a constitution that banned slavery.
What led Douglas to propose abandoning the Missouri Compromise?
Because based on the Missouri Compromise both Nebraska and Kansas would be admitted as free states. This would upset the balance of free vs. slave states in Congress. This would give the North and advantage over the South.
When did Congress pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
May of 1854
Who were the border ruffians?
Missourians who traveled in armed groups to Kansas and vote for proslavery legislature
What incident, along with the fighting in "Bleeding Kansas," revealed the level of hostility between the North and the South?
The Brooks-Summer incident in Congress when Preston Brooks attacked Charles Summer in the Senate Chamber
What conflicting positions did Congress take concerning the rival governments in Kansas?
The Senate favored the proslavery government and the House of Representatives backed the forces opposed to slavery
What did free African Americans and whites who opposed slavery set up to help runaways escape?
Underground Railroad
What happened in Kansas in the elections of 1855?
a proslavery legislature was elected due to thousands of Missourians crossing borders and voting in Kansas
What did the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 require?
all citizens to help catch runaways
What did Douglas call letting settlers in a territory vote on whether to allow slavery?
popular sovereignty