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- Compromise of 1850 - Popular Sovereignty
- California
- Utah
- New Mexico
- Popular Sovereignty
- Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
- All runaway slaves can now be captured and returned to their ownersAny potential runaway slaves must be reportedimmediatelyAiding a runaway slave, can result in fines and prison time
- Fugitive Slave Law
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Have you ever read this book?
- It's called Uncle Tom's Cabin. Slavery is a lot worse than I thought. We should do more to stop it!
- No
- Wow! I should read it!
- Compromise of 1850:Let California join America as a free state and allowed popular sovereignty in both New Mexico and Utah.Popular Sovereignty:Lets the people who live in an area vote on slavery.
- Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854/Bleeding Kansas of 1856
- Free State
- I can have slaves if I want to!
- Slavery!
- No Slavery!
- Made it a illegal for people in the north to help fugitive slaves and forced northern people to locate and report fugitives.
- Dred Scott Decision of 1857
- In the Supreme Court...
- A famous book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, that was read by most of the Northern people and encouraged them to help end slavery.
- Lincoln - Douglas Debates of 1858
- Slavery is Bad!
- Popular Sovereignty! The people should decide!
- Bleeding Kansas: An aggresive result of people moving into Kansas and having different beliefs on slavery.Kansas/Nebraska Act of 1856:Allowed Kansas and Nevraska to use popular sovereignty instead of the Missouri Compromise.
- A decision made by the Surpreme that decided that all slaves/former slaves could not become a citizen, and that state governments could not deal with slavery in all places.
- No slaves can every be a citizen! No federal governments can ban slavery anywhere!
- A string of debates between the senate candidates, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, over many issues in America, mostly slavery.
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