Chapter 10 Section 2Mounting Violence

In 1831 Nat Turner led a slave uprising in Virginia and raised tensions to an all time high

Uncle Tom’s Cabin written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in

1852 about a slave and his overseer changed the Northern outlook on slavery

Uncle Tom’s Cabin continued

The South tried to have the book banned but it sold millions of copies and had a huge impact.

Frederick Douglas was one of the most adamant opponents to the Fugitive Slave Act

The movement gave rise to the Underground Railroad

Members of the movement were called conductors

One of the most famous was Harriet Tubman

Transcontinental Railroad Sectional disagreements moved West

with the settlers who remained pro North or pro South

Many began to push for a Transcontinental Railroad to make travel to the West quicker and easier

Southern Rail

In 1853 James Gadsden convinced Mexico to agree to accept $10 million for the territory known as the Gadsden Purchase

The land today is a 30,000 square mile strip of southern Arizona and New Mexico

Northern Rail Democrat Stephen A. Douglas

wanted a northern route that began in Chicago

Congress would first need to organize the territory west of Missouri and Iowa

Douglas prepared a bill in 1853 to call the territory Nebraska

How is a railroad connected to slavery?

Southerners refused to sign the bill unless the Missouri Compromise was repealed and slavery was allowed in the territory

To please southerners, Douglas pushed for the new territory to have popular sovereignty

Kansas-Nebraska Act The Kansas-Nebraska Act divided the

region into Kansas in the South and Nebraska in the North

Kansas-Nebraska Act continued The act also repealed the Missouri

Compromise

In 1856 Kansas became the scene of a territorial civil war known as “Bleeding Kansas”

“Border ruffians” help elect (illegally?) a pro-slavery state legislature.

Kansas ends up with two elected governments and two state constitutions.