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Day 6- Fugitive Slave Law & Bleeding Kansas - Coggle Diagram
Day 6- Fugitive Slave Law & Bleeding Kansas
Fugitive Slave Law
Extremely Harsh Laws
No trial by jury
More money to return a slave than free them
Huge fines for those who help a fugitive(Slave)
Northern Reaction
Sent slaves to Canada
Boston Mob killed guard of imprisoned fugitive.
9 Northern states passed laws forbidding imprisonment of fugitives
Northern lawyers dragged trials out to increase cost for slave owners
Underground Railroad
Secret network of people who hid fugitives
"Conductors" hid fugitives in secret tunnels and false cupboards, gave food, and clothing, help to next "station."
Harriet Tubman helps 300 slaves escape during 19 trips South
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Novel sent message of immorality of slavery
Harriet Beecher Stowe
“So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.”
-Lincoln, upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1862
Tension over Kansas/Nebraska
Issue of slavery in new territories
Kansas/Nebraska
Sen. Douglas proposes Kansas Nebraska Act
Kansas Nebraska Act
Divide area into 2 territories
Nebraska
Kansas
Repealed Missouri Compromise
Popular Sovereignty in both territories
Bill passed 1854, after moths of struggle in congress
Effects:
Both sides very bitter
Both rush into Kansas
Enough to make Kansas eligible to be a state by March, 1855
violence between two factions
“Free Staters” (N)
“Border Ruffians” (S)