Chapter 15.2 Flashcards
Fugitive slave act(4)
•people could be arrested without a warrens.• judge decided fate for each person. $5 for releasing a person.$10 for retiring the slave.• slaves didn’t have the right to trial by jury• if u didn’t return slaves, you faced fines. If u helped a slave run away, you faved jail time
Results of fugitive slave act
Southerners liked the law because it made it easier to get their property back. North despised Slavs hunters and their presence in the north
Stephen Douglas and the Kansas Nebraska act
Proposed a bill that would replace the Missouri compromise. He called for popular sovereignty to determine if slavery would be allowed in the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska
What did Stephen Douglass want
Build a transcontinental railroad
Problems with Kansas Nebraska act(3)
•if this bill is passed, then it would mean the end of the Missouri compromise• it would mean that slavery would be allowed in territories that were once free•the Kansas Nebraska act passed in 1854 and brings bloodshed to the area
What year was the Kansas Nebraska act
1854
Where was the proslavery and antislavey government in Kansas
Proslavery: lacompton
Antislavey: Lawrence
1855 election
Established a legislative in Kansas. It would determine if the territories allowed slaves or not. People flooded Kansas and there were more proslavery then antislavey supporters. To make slavery be allowed, 5000 proslavery supporters from Missouri voted in this election illegally
To make slavery be allowed, what did 5,000 proslavery supporters do
Voters from Missouri voted in the election illegally
Lawrence Kansas
Upset that the election was rigged, the antislavey supporters created their own government in Lawrence. A proslavery group attacked the town of Lawrence and destroyed offices and houses of elected officials
John brown
An extreme abolitionist who was angry over the attack on Lawrence, so in retaliation, he led a group of men who attacked proslavery neighbors, killing 7. Browns attack sent Kansas into a civil war for the next 3 years
What sent Kansas into a civil war
Brown attacking proslavery neighbors
Sumner
Spoke out against proslavery faction in Kansas, and insulted people like brooks
Brooks
In retaliation for sumner insulting brooks, brooks hit sumner over 30 times with a cane breaking it over sumner
After brooks attacked sumner, how were brooks and sumner seen from the north and south
Brooks: hero in south
Sumner: hero in north
