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HARRIET BEECHER STOWE - author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an important book to the abolitionist movement
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President Lincoln once met her and said: “So, you’re the lady that started this whole war.”
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UNLCE TOM’S CABIN - a novel about a runaway slave escaping to the North, makes people aware of the issue of slavery, sells hundreds of thousands of copies
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the plot of Uncle Tom’s Cabin is the story of the life of a slave named Tom
Includes some stories of escapes to freedom
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FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT - a law that said slaves could be arrested without an arrest warrant and brought back to their owner in the South
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Southerners felt the Fugitive Slave Act was justified because slaves were viewed as property
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The Fugitive Slave Act brought the issue of slavery to the North
Northerners now had to face the slavery issue
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the Nebraska Territory was now the new controversy
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Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois proposes the KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT to create Nebraska and Kansas Territories
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Each territory will be able to decide whether they want to be a free or slave state - POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
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This act would replace the Missouri Compromise in deciding free or slave states
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people for and against slavery now moved to this area to be able to vote on this issue
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Many people voted illegally and fights break out in Kansas - this becomes known as “BLEEDING KANSAS”
An attack on Lawrence becomes known as the “Sack of Lawrence”
BLEEDINGKANSAS
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JOHN BROWN is in Kansas and begins to become a strict abolitionist
He will become an important figure later
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Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts is attacked on the floor of the Senate and hit over 30 times with a cane by a slavery supporter
An attack even happened in Congress
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