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The Fugitive Slave Act
Bleeding Kansas
Compromise of 1850
Antislavery Literature
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
100
Year of 1850
When was the fugitive act passed?
100
Antislavery and pro-slavery groups rushed to get people to Kansas for an Election
What was Bleeding Kansas?
100
“The Great Compromiser”
What was Henry Clay's Nickname?
100
Around the 1840s
When did slave narratives become popular?
100
A railroad to the pacific
What did stephen douglas support
200
A 1,000 dollar fine and six months in jail
What was the punishment of hiding a slave after they ran away?
200
March 1855
What was the date of the Election?
200
Senator John C. Calhoun
Who spoke for the southern states?
200
Uncle tom's cabin
Which piece of literature had the most influence?
200
Railroad running through southern states
What did the southerners want
300
The Fugitive Slave Act made it a federal crime to help runaway slaves.
What did the Fugitive Slave Act do?
300
A series of pro-slavery laws
What did the new Legislature pass?
300
Daniel Webster
Who was the Senator for Massachusetts
300
Fugitive slave stories
What kind of stories did the northerns tell?
300
1854
What year was the 36 30 proposed to be removed
400
10 years
How many years did take for 343 fugitive slave cases to happen?
400
The new laws made it a crime to question anyone’s right to hold slaves
What was one of the Laws that the Legislature passed?
400
Later that year in september
When was the compromise of 1850 made a law?
400
uncle tom
who is the main character in uncle tom's cabin
400
In January 1854
When did Douglas introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
500
Up north to Canada to escape potential prosecution under the Fugitive Slave Act
Where did the slaves when they escape go?
500
Kansas had two governments and an angry population divided into two armed camps
What was happening in 1856?
500
Senator William Seward
Who spoke for northerners?
500
in 1852
when was uncle tom's cabin published
500
May 30, 1854
When was the Act signed/passed?