The Crisis Turns Violent

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The Crisis Turns Violent
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Objectives

• Identify one significant author during the
  pre-civil war years.
• Explain one way for the North and one way for the
  South how Uncle Toms Cabin affected attitudes
  towards slavery.
• Explain one reason why war broke out in Kansas
• Explain the Supreme Courts decision to in the
  Dred Scott case.
• Judge the decision based on what you know.

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The Crisis Turns Violent

• Uncle Toms Cabin (1852)
• Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Never been to south
• Enraged many Northerners
• Sold over 1 million copies

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The Crisis Turns Violent

• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
• Stephen Douglas (Senator IL) introduced
• Said - settlers in Kansas/Nebraska would vote on
  the issue of slavery themselves (PS)
• It repealed the Missouri Compromise

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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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The Crisis Turns Violent

• John Brown (1856)
• He wanted to help make Kansas a free state
• -believed in violence
• -killed 5 proslavery settlers one night
• Newspapers called it Bleeding Kansas

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• John Browns Raid (1859)
• JB and 20 supporters captured a federal arms
  factory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
• Brown-captured, tried, executed Northerners made
  him a martyr

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The Crisis Turns Violent

• The Dred Scott Decision (1857)
• Slave-moved to North with his owner
• Moved back to Missouri and owner dies

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• The Dred Scott Decision

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Dred Scott Decision

• Supreme Court took his case
• They said he wasnt a citizen, b/c he was a slave
• Congress couldnt outlaw slavery in the
  territories
• The Results
• White southerners were happy, while most
  northerners were angered.