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Causes:
1. Congress passes new Fugitive Slave Law as part of the 1850 slave law.
2. Harriet Beecher Stowe Decides to write story to protect the new F.S.L and promote empathy for enslaved Americans.
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Results of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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Results:
1. Best selling book in American history.
2. Best play in American history.
3. Merchandising.
4. Advertising.
5. Did not promote racial equality.
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Kansas - Nebraska Act
(1854)
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Causes:
1. Douglas wants transcontinental R.R. to go through Chicago and Kansas/Nebraska territory.
2. White settlers want more land.
3. Manifest Destiny.
4. Southerners wouldn't cooperate unless the territories were opened to slave holders. |
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Kansas - Nebraksa Act
(1854)
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Effects:
1. Native Americans are displaced.
2. Missouri compromise line is erased which angers the north.
3. Pro and Anti slavery "race" to Kansabecause of popular sovereignty.
4."Bleeding Kansas" - people fight over slavery in Kansas
5. Republican party is created (wig party dies)
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Dred Scot Supreme Court Decision
(1857)
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Causes:
1. Dred Scot an enslaved man sues for his freedom because he had been taken to free territory and state. |
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Dred Scot Supreme Court Decision
(1857)
Effects
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Effects:
1. Blacks have no rights.
2. Court rules that fifth amendment protects southerners from having their property taken from them.
3. Missouri Compromise *unconstitutional*
4. Popular Soveregnty *unconstitutional*
5. Republican platform which barred slavery from the western territories. *unconstitutional*
6. Respect for the supreme court decreses in north and increases tension between north and south.
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Causes:
1. Mexican war victory leave U.S. with huge territory (1/2/ of Mexico) out west.
2. Gold Rush causes thousands to populate California.
3. California asks to become a free state.
4. Underground railroad causes anger in the south
5. Anti-slavery northerners find slavery and slave trade in Washington D.C. shameful.
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Results:
1. California becomes a free state.
2. Popoular Sovereignty will decide if Utah and New Mexico territories will be slave or free.
3. Slave trade, but NOT slavery aboished in Washington D.C.
4. New tough F.S.L.
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