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Bleeding Kansas

(1856) a series of violent fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas who had moved to Kansas to try to influence the decision of whether or not Kansas would a slave state or a free state.

Fugitive Slave Act

required all citizens to help catch runaways

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.

Uncle Tom's Cabin was an important book because it A.caused many northerners to rally to the abolitionist cause. B.gave northerners a true picture of slave life. C.helped heal the wounds of sectionalism. D.portrayed the lives of slaves favorably compared with the lives of industrial workers.

A. caused many northerners to rally to the abolitionist cause.

Many northerners objected to the Kansas-Nebraska Act because it A.reopened the issue of slavery in territory that the Missouri Compromise said would be free. B.extended the line of the Missouri Compromise. C.took away voters' rights to decide the issue of slavery in their own territory. D.upset the balance between slave and free states in Congress.

A. reopened the issue of slavery in territory that the Missouri Compromise said would be free.

Explain the events surrounding the violence in Congress.

Charles sumner gave a speech about being against proslavery two days later his distance cousin walked into the senate chamber and hit him again and again in the head with a cane he did not return until many years had passed

As a result of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, A. all citizens were required to help catch runaway slaves. B. many free blacks fled to Canada for fear of being enslaved. C. northerners felt that they were being made part of the slave system. D. all of these.

D. all of these.

border ruffians

Missourians who traveled in armed groups to vote in Kansas's election during the mid-1850's

John Brown

abolitionist, believed god had sent him to end slavery

popular sovereignty

allowing the people to decide

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

harriet beecher stowe