Social Studies Chapter 15 Section 2

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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


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