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Chapter 18, Sections 1,2.
The Debate over Slavery and the War in Kansas.
The Wilmot Proviso
• Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of the territories.
California and Slavery
• CA was antislavery due to its having been owned by Mexico, and also because its miners did not want to compete against slave labor.
Henry Clay
• Came up with a compromise that would allow California to be admitted as a free state, and created a new harsher fugitive slave law.
Fugitive Slave Act (1850) Commissioners were paid twice as much to call a fugitive a slave rather than free
him.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Stephen Douglas
• Proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act so he could get his Chicago Railroad. Also had a series of debates with Abe Lincoln.
The Kansas and Nebraska Act
• The Northerners believed that popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska violated the Missouri Compromise.
• Kansas was up-for-grabs until a proslavery legislature was voted in. Then it bled.
The first Kansas legislature made it a
crime to speak against slavery.
Henry Ward Beecher
• Abolitionist Reverend who raised money from his congregation for rifles for antislavery Kansans.
“Sack of Lawrence”.
• When an anti-slavery legislature started up, a pro-slavery posse went after its members. They fled… and one man died.
John Brown
• Abolitionist responsible for the Pottawatomie Massacre, and the arsenal raid at Harper’s Ferry. Wanted to arm the slaves.
Charles Sumner
• Made a speech criticizing the actions of proslavery Kansans- and got beat unconscious for it.
Preston Brooks was congratulated by Southerners for beating Sumner unconscious.
They sent him replacement canes.